Kim Lee is the Founder and CEO of Forge, a coworking space in the heart of Downtown Birmingham, AL. Her passion for business as a service, hospitality, community and economic growth of the city drove her to open Forge in September 2017.  Forge has developed another layer in the ecosystem for business owners and entrepreneurs providing a platform for growth and advancement of small businesses in a way that was not present in Birmingham.  In 2018 Forge was Small Business of the Year Finalist. Kim is also involved in mentoring entrepreneurs through several different local schools and serves on the Executive Board of Tech Birmingham.   Out of her love for the support and community that Kim experienced through the GWA, Kim founded Birmingham Coworking Collective as a way to bring together and provide community and support for all of the coworking spaces in Birmingham.  Kim has recently joined the Everything Coworking Team to as a coach for new coworking space operators.  When not at Forge, you can most likely find Kim and her husband Murray going from one sporting event to the next of their three children, Ella, Miller and Sara Wells.