Kimberly D. Mathis

Kimberly Mathis is a native of Dallas, Texas and a 1996 honors graduate of Skyline High School. After graduation she went on to attend Texas A&M University-Commerce on a full academic scholarship awarded through the prestigious Roger Alsabrook Foundation. At Texas A&M-Commerce, she was a frequent affiliate of the Dean’s List. Kim graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in the Spring of 2000. Immediately following she entered the workforce as a Research Analyst for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Plano, Texas and served as assistant Marketing Director for the COMDEX Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2001.

Pulling on her corporate experience and business education, she became a member of the Women of Influence, Incorporated Conference Executive Board and Sponsorship Committee Chairman. Later in 2003, she would launch her entrepreneurial passions and become a franchisee co-owner of Wings-To-Go. In 2006 she earned a Texas Realtors License before taking a position as an income tax professional at Income Tax Specialists in Dallas, Texas. Kim has been a registered preparer with the Internal Revenue Service since 2006 and currently owns and operates her own income tax service, The Tax Lady. She also serves as Vice President of the Kevin Mathis Foundation, a nonprofit charity founded in 2004 that focuses on youth empowerment, building stronger communities and providing support for families affected by drug addiction.

Kim is a newly published author, a memoir entitled Dope Girl. In Dope Girl she candidly shares painful details of being born a drug dependent infant to a mother with a tumultuous addiction to heroin and cocaine. She relives moments of growing up with a drug addict and give riveting and emotionally charged, first hand eye witness accounts to the perils of addiction, to include jaw dropping details of seeing her mother get high as a young child, as well as watching the life of crime she led to support her deadly habit.

Dope Girl not only awakens our senses to the mental illness of addiction while simultaneously pulling at our heart strings, it also unveils the herculean strength required to be the child of an addict; and the overwhelming obstacles that children born into addiction automatically suffer.

Kim is vulnerable when traveling through the past and take you on a tear-jerking adventure of overcoming abandonment, lack of parental love, societal statistics, impoverished living conditions and hopelessness before achieving both personal and professional success plus mental freedom.

She lives in Colleyville, Texas and is married to her college sweetheart and former 10 year NFL defensive back, Kevin Mathis. They are the proud parents of three children, Kennedy, Kaleb and Kole. She enjoys interior design, traveling, writing and a good book. She will pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing in the Fall of 2019.