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{{Infobox person
| name = Kim Iversen
| image = KimIversen2011 (cropped).jpg
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| birth_place = Boise, Idaho, U.S.
| occupation = Journalist • radio host • YouTuber
| years_active = 2000s–present
| known_for = ''[[Your Time with Kim Iversen]]'' • ''The Rendezvous with Simon and Kim'' • Co-hosting ''[[Rising (web series)|Rising]]'' (2021–2022) • independent political commentary
| website = {{URL|kimiversen.com}}
}}

'''Kim Iversen''' (born 1980) is an American journalist, radio host, and political commentator. She is known for hosting the nationally syndicated radio programs ''Your Time with Kim Iversen'' (United Stations Radio Networks) and ''The Rendezvous with Simon and Kim'' (Premiere Networks), co-hosting the web series ''[[Rising (web series)|Rising]]'' on ''[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]'' from 2021 to 2022, and hosting ''The Kim Iversen Show'' on YouTube and Rumble.<ref name="Statesman">{{cite news |url=https://www.statesman.com/story/entertainment/music/2012/09/01/austin-host-puts-herself-on-national-radio/10206374007/ |title=Austin host puts herself on national radio |work=Austin American-Statesman |date=2012-09-01 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref><ref name="AllAccess2010">{{cite web |url=https://www.allaccess.com/hot-modern-ac/10-questions/archive/12298/10-questions-with-kim-iversen |title=10 Questions with… Kim Iversen |website=All Access |date=2010-08-23 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref><ref name="OhioMedia2014">{{cite web |url=https://ohiomediawatch.com/2014/06/24/no-longer-working-in-cleveland/ |title=No Longer Working In Cleveland, Or Youngstown |website=Ohio Media Watch |date=2014-06-24 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref><ref name="AP-Rumble">{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/press-release/globe-newswire/covid-19-pandemic-globe-newswire-c986344542f78eff430850b2a0838d91 |title=Journalist Kim Iversen Joins Rumble Exclusives at 6PM ET Every Weekday |work=AP News |date=2023-01-03 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref><ref name="RR2009">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Archive-RandR/2000s/2009/RR-2009-01-23.pdf |title=Radio & Records |magazine=Radio & Records |issue=1641 |date=2009-01-23 |pages=20–21 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Iversen was born in Boise, Idaho.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> Her mother is a Vietnamese refugee and her father is the son of a small-town farmer.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEiHnPDUy0 |title=Kim Iversen: My Family's Firsthand Experience As A Refugee Family, What Afghan Refugees Can Expect |website=The Hill |date=2021-08-26 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> As a teenager, she played drums.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> She studied philosophy (with an emphasis on ethics) and music at the [[University of California, Davis]].<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> While in college, she interned at radio stations KDVS, KDND, and KWOD in Sacramento.<ref name="AllAccess2010" />

== Career ==
=== Radio career ===
Iversen began her broadcasting career in college as a news reporter at KDVS in Davis, California.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> She interned at KDND in Sacramento, served in promotions and on-air weekends at KWOD-hosting for "106.5 KWOD Alternative"-and worked as a news and traffic reporter at KCTC in Sacramento.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> After graduating, she moved to New York City and freelanced as a news reporter for News 12 Networks and as a VJ for Concert TV.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> She co-hosted mornings at WAZY-FM in Lafayette, Indiana, as part of "The WAZY Wake-Up Crew with Big Jake and Kim Iversen,"<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> and hosted "Kim Iversen Mornings" at WQQB in Champaign, Illinois, from 2007 to 2008.<ref name="AllAccess2010" />

In April 2008, Iversen launched the nationally syndicated lifestyle program ''Your Time with Kim Iversen'' through United Stations Radio Networks (now part of Audacy) and Entercom, based out of KAMX in Austin, Texas.<ref name="Statesman" /><ref name="AllAccess2010" /><ref name="RR2009" /> The interactive call-in show, targeting women, aired weeknights from 7 p.m. to midnight and featured listener advice, celebrity interviews, and expert discussions, including segments such as "The Why Chromosome," "Mascara Monologues," "Psychic Insights," and "Drama Detox."<ref name="Statesman" /><ref name="AllAccess2010" /> It was broadcast in markets including Portland, Denver, Austin, Milwaukee, Memphis, Indianapolis, Norfolk, Buffalo, Wichita, Fargo, Rapid City, Nashville, Chico-Redding, Dayton, Ohio, and Greenville, North Carolina.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /><ref name="RR2009" />

In June 2013, she co-hosted ''The Rendezvous with Simon and Kim'' on Premiere Networks (iHeartRadio), a relationship and sex advice program targeting women, airing evenings with music integration.<ref name="OhioMedia2014" /><ref name="RadioInsight">{{cite web |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/110326/angi-taylor-joins-the-rendezvous-with-simon-marcel/ |title=Angi Taylor Joins The Rendezvous With Simon Marcel |website=RadioInsight |date=2016-08-12 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> The show premiered on XM 244, iHeartRadio, and stations like KTMY in Minneapolis and was syndicated to stations in markets including Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Seattle, Tampa, New Orleans, San Francisco, Akron, and others, reaching approximately 40–50 markets total across her radio career.<ref name="OhioMedia2014" /><ref name="RadioInsight" /><ref name="HauteLiving">{{cite web |url=https://hauteliving.com/2016/08/haute-dating-advice-radio-star-simon-marcel/619152/ |title=Haute Dating Advice From Radio Star Simon Marcel |website=Haute Living |date=2016-08-12 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref><ref name="DigitalJournal">{{cite news |url=https://www.digitaljournal.com/entertainment/simon-badinter-talks-syndicated-radio-show-the-rendezvous/article/439644 |title=Simon Badinter talks syndicated radio show 'The Rendezvous' (Includes interview) |work=Digital Journal |date=2015-07-29 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> In January 2013, she guest co-hosted ''Loveline'' with Mike Catherwood and Dr. Drew Pinsky for a week.<ref name="AllAccess2010" />

In 2010, Iversen was a semi-finalist in the top 10 of the ''Live! with Regis and Kelly'' Women of Radio Co-host Competition.<ref name="AllAccess2010" />

=== ''Rising'' (2021–2022) ===
In July 2021, Iversen joined ''[[Rising (web series)|Rising]]'' on ''The Hill'' in a newly created independent/anti-establishment seat. She appeared alongside Ryan Grim (left-wing) and, later, Robby Soave (who filled the right-wing seat previously held by Emily Jashinsky).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/ryan-grim-and-emily-jashinsky-exit-the-hills-popular-web-show-rising |title=Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky Exit The Hill’s Popular Web Show ‘Rising’ |work=The Daily Beast |date=2022-09-01 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref><ref name="HillSC">{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/560105-kim-iversen-discusses-implications-of-pro-business-supreme-court/ |title=Kim Iversen discusses implications of ‘pro-business’ Supreme Court |work=The Hill |date=2021-06-24 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> She left the show in July 2022.<ref name="AP-Rumble" />

=== Independent media ===
Iversen launched her independent YouTube channel ''The Kim Iversen Show'' on January 11, 2019.<ref name="AP-Rumble" /> The channel, which focuses on independent political commentary, has over 724,000 subscribers and 106 million views as of December 2025.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/@kimiversen/about |title=Kim Iversen - YouTube |website=YouTube |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> Following her departure from ''Rising'', she signed an exclusive streaming deal with Rumble, where the show now airs live weekdays at 5 p.m. ET.<ref name="AP-Rumble" />

== Awards ==
In 2019, Iversen received the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://serenashimaward.org/laureates/ |title=Laureates |website=Serena Shim Award |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> In 2022, she received the Women and Media Award from the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press.<ref name="WIFP">{{cite web |url=https://www.wifp.org/womens-media/women-and-media-award/ |title=Women and Media Award |website=Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> She is also a grantee of Integrity Media Partners.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.integritymedia.org/grantees |title=Support Recipients |website=Integrity Media |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> In 2019, she received a YouTube Silver Creator Award for surpassing 100,000 subscribers.<ref name="AP-Rumble" />

== Political views ==
Iversen describes herself as a free-speech advocate and a critic of corporate media, U.S. foreign policy, and Big Pharma.

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 == Early life and education ==
 Iversen was born in Boise, Idaho.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> Her mother is a Vietnamese refugee and her father is the son of a small-town farmer.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEiHnPDUy0 |title=Kim Iversen: My Family's Firsthand Experience As A Refugee Family, What Afghan Refugees Can Expect |website=The Hill |date=2021-08-26 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> As a teenager, she played drums.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> She studied philosophy (with an emphasis on ethics) and music at the [[University of California, Davis]].<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> While in college, she interned at radio stations KDVS, KDND, and KWOD in Sacramento.<ref name="AllAccess2010" />
 == Career ==
 === Radio career ===
 Iversen began her broadcasting career in college as a news reporter at KDVS in Davis, California.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> She interned at KDND in Sacramento, served in promotions and on-air weekends at KWOD-hosting for "106.5 KWOD Alternative"-and worked as a news and traffic reporter at KCTC in Sacramento.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> After graduating, she moved to New York City and freelanced as a news reporter for News 12 Networks and as a VJ for Concert TV.<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> She co-hosted mornings at WAZY-FM in Lafayette, Indiana, as part of "The WAZY Wake-Up Crew with Big Jake and Kim Iversen,"<ref name="AllAccess2010" /> and hosted "Kim Iversen Mornings" at WQQB in Champaign, Illinois, from 2007 to 2008.<ref name="AllAccess2010" />
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 === ''Rising'' (2021–2022) ===
 In July 2021, Iversen joined ''[[Rising (web series)|Rising]]'' on ''The Hill'' in a newly created independent/anti-establishment seat. She appeared alongside Ryan Grim (left-wing) and, later, Robby Soave (who filled the right-wing seat previously held by Emily Jashinsky).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/ryan-grim-and-emily-jashinsky-exit-the-hills-popular-web-show-rising |title=Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky Exit The Hill’s Popular Web Show ‘Rising’ |work=The Daily Beast |date=2022-09-01 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref><ref name="HillSC">{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/560105-kim-iversen-discusses-implications-of-pro-business-supreme-court/ |title=Kim Iversen discusses implications of ‘pro-business’ Supreme Court |work=The Hill |date=2021-06-24 |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> She left the show in July 2022.<ref name="AP-Rumble" />
 === Independent media ===
 Iversen launched her independent YouTube channel ''The Kim Iversen Show'' on January 11, 2019.<ref name="AP-Rumble" /> The channel, which focuses on independent political commentary, has over 724,000 subscribers and 106 million views as of December 2025.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/@kimiversen/about |title=Kim Iversen - YouTube |website=YouTube |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> Following her departure from ''Rising'', she signed an exclusive streaming deal with Rumble, where the show now airs live weekdays at 5 p.m. ET.<ref name="AP-Rumble" />
 == Awards ==
 In 2019, Iversen received the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://serenashimaward.org/laureates/ |title=Laureates |website=Serena Shim Award |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> In 2022, she received the Women and Media Award from the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press.<ref name="WIFP">{{cite web |url=https://www.wifp.org/womens-media/women-and-media-award/ |title=Women and Media Award |website=Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> She is also a grantee of Integrity Media Partners.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.integritymedia.org/grantees |title=Support Recipients |website=Integrity Media |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref> In 2019, she received a YouTube Silver Creator Award for surpassing 100,000 subscribers.<ref name="AP-Rumble" />
 == Political views ==
 Iversen describes herself as a free-speech advocate and a critic of corporate media, U.S. foreign policy, and Big Pharma.
 == References ==
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