Kim's Story & Bio

Hello there! I'm Kim Bauman, Founder of One Love Movement. Here's why One Love was created..... thank you for reading my story. 

In 2012 I went on a humanitarian trip to Haiti as the result of raising over $21,000 in 6 months for Off the Mat, Into the World's Global SEVA Challenge 2011. Upon raising the money I got sponsored to go to Haiti and witness first-hand the funds being used to rebuild Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake. This was THE changing point in my life. We volunteered in tent camps home to thousands (meaning 40-60,000 people) and orphanages where many of the kids had either grown up or had been displaced from the earthquake. 

We were volunteering at one of the orphanages and there I had learned that some of the older kids had been there since infancy. My mind began to swirl with their story, their lives, wondering what it was like for them, with incredible feelings of empathy and compassion. I was deeply, deeply touched and it dawned on me why.... for the first time in my life I had realized my own circumstances, and that was that I was them. I was abandoned as a baby in Seoul Korea, went into foster care through the social system, and eventually was adopted. This is the first time I had realized how blessed I was. Spending time with these kids in Haiti is what drew me to my calling.

After coming home from Haiti, I knew that the only answer was to use my life as a message to help people who were dealt difficult and less fortunate hands in life. Being a brown child with slanted eyes growing up in Wyoming and South Dakota, and living with a permanent disability, I was bullied from childhood through high school for "looking funny" and for having darker skin so the mission of One Love Movement began with wanting to forward change in equality and inclusion for people.

A few of Kim’s Career Highlights

• Acknowledged for advocacy work as 1 of 18 chosen to be on a Zoom with Michelle Obama & Selena Gomez

• Yoga Trainer for Chopra Yoga Teacher Training

• Speaker & Yoga Teacher for Deepak Chopra's Global Meditation

• Yoga teacher for live events with 1,000+ attendees

• Taught yoga event with Michael Franti performing live

• Fiduciary/Sponsor for a shelter in India with 22 kids, 2015-present

• Nominee for Baseball Hall of Famer, Tony Gwynn Inspiration Award

• Traveled as the yoga teacher for 3x Gold Olympian, Kerri Walsh-Jennings’s volleyball events

• Production for TEDx Donovon Prison in San Diego

• Production for Oscar winning Film Producer on major motion picture movies

• Interviewed: Jason Mraz, Trevor Hall, Michael Franti, Colton Underwood

• Host of live podcast events, interviewing on-stage public figures making a difference out in the world

• lululemon ambassador 2015-2023

Haiti 2012