About Mina Kimes

By Michele Kettner

Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, Kimes moved around the country as a child with her family, due to her father’s career in the Air Force.

Eventually settling down for college at Yale in 2004, Kimes began to pursue her undergraduate degree in English.

She decided to go into journalism after internships for book publishing and a job in teaching did not fall in line with what she wanted as a career.

After a year working at Fortune Small Business, Kimes moved to Fortune Magazine. During her four years at Fortune, Kimes went from covering business, to writing features about investors and finally moving to the investigative beat.

Her investigative work at Fortune led her to Bloomberg in 2013, where she wrote multiple award winning investigative stories.

Some of those include “King Cat,” a profile on Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelmen, and “The Sun Tzu at Sears,” about Sears CEO Eddie Lampert, which together won the 2013 Front Page Award for business reporting.

Kimes moved to ESPN in 2014 after an editor at the network saw a personal essay she posted online about her relationship with her father and the Seahawks.