Kimberly Garcia is an assistant clinical professor and the director of the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner program at Drexel University. She completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at Columbia University, New York City. She received her BSN, MSN in nursing education and post-masterʼs certificate in family nurse practitioner studies from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. Her post-masterʼs certificate in psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner studies was completed at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She is a DNP-to-PhD student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Garcia is board-certified as a family, gerontological and psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner.