Kim Mahoney has worked extensively around the state of Alaska performing project management for planning, design and construction of state-owned facilities.  Mahoney has performed masterplanning and capital projects for AVTEC in Seward and in 2016 completed a $139M project for the State Library Archives and Museum in Juneau Alaska for the Department of Education and Early Development.  Mahoney received a degree from University of Alaska Fairbanks in civil engineering and similarly holds a professional engineering license in civil engineering.   Mahoney was raised in remote Alaskan lodges at Hatcher Pass and later at Lake Louise and for over 45 years has enjoyed the Alaskan frontier and its peoples for their ruggedness and the grit it takes to live here.

Mahoney is married to an UAA alumni and life-long Alaskan, Tim, whose family homesteaded in the Matanuska Valley in the 1960's.  They have two children and their son is currently a UAA student.