Before joining HMLG, she was a part of the "Krewe" at Audiosocket, a music licensing agency, and its spun-out entity, LIDCORE, a technology company that has developed a watermarking technology to encode data into copyrighted material. At Audiosocket she helped its artists enforce their music rights and worked extensively with synchronization licenses. Kimberly also served as a volunteer attorney with Simplify Recordings, a bass music record label based in Seattle.