Valentina Kimily Jones (Kim) founded SHALLOW to help nonprofit organizations align their mission and values with brand identity, strategic communications, and community engagement.

SHALLOW also helps people cultivate aesthetic sensibilities and be intentional about their material world.

ABOUT VALENTINA KIMILY JONES (KIM)

Kim is an internationally experienced professional with a dynamic background across fashion, art, and nonprofit industries.

She studied at Maastricht University and graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Psychology and a minor in the History of Art and Visual Culture, with an emphasis on Carl Jung's theory of archetypes and symbols.

She was an expat living in Sweden from 2008 to 2016 with dual US and Swedish citizenship, becoming the Marketing Director of the Swedish Academy of Realist Art and later the PR Manager for House of Dagmar, one of Sweden’s most influential fashion houses. She styled prominent women across Sweden’s film, fashion, music, art, and political industries. She has worked on fashion and lifestyle campaigns as a producer, stylist, PR consultant, and model for brands including House of Dagmar, Reliquary, Andersson Bell, Apart of the Art, Diana Orving, A New Sweden, Koala Eco, Haus of Hommeboys, and the SWEDISH FASHION NOW Paris Edition at Institut suédois.

Since returning to Sonoma Valley in 2016, her work shifted to mission-driven communications, coalition building, and fundraising. She supports development and communications at Sonoma Ecology Center and coordinates Sonoma Valley Collaborative, facilitating diplomacy across key sectors within the community and connecting organizations and leaders to solve complex community problems. She launched and leads The Future Collective, a Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund initiative to organize younger people with intellectual and social capital around the future of Sonoma Valley, and does PR consultation for AG/O in support of international human rights campaigns.

She serves as the Governance Chair of the Sonoma Valley Education Foundation and Sebastiani Theatre Foundation Board of Directors and as the Vice President of the Valley of the Moon Music Festival Board of Directors.