Kim David's Mandar holds degrees in applied linguistics and music therapy. She is now a full-time MSc student at the University of Guelph, writing a thesis on the role of theatre in building intercultural sensitivity. Her Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph is a capstone course away from completion.

Kim co-hosts Bookish Radio at CFRU 93.3 FM in Guelph, with Anna Bowen, Tamara Jong and Dan Evans. She has self-published There is Beauty Here Because You are Here, a children's story about global migration illustrated by Alura Sutherland. Her writing has been published in Sustenance, ed. Rachel Rose (Anvil press, 2017), Rhapsody (Vocamus Press, 2018), and Prairie Fire literary magazine (2018).