Dr. Kimberly Henkel, Founder

Dr. Kimberly Henkel is the Founder and Executive Director of Springs of Love, a ministry to encourage, educate and equip Catholics to discern and live out the call to foster and adopt. She is also Co-Founder of Springs in the Desert, a sister ministry to Springs of Love, that is dedicated to spiritually and emotionally accompanying those struggling with infertility and loss.

Kimberly holds a PhD in Moral Theology/Ethics, with a focus in Bioethics, from the Catholic University of America where she was awarded a full John Quasten Scholarship and Hubbard Dissertation Fellowship. She was the former Executive Vice-President of the National Pro-Life Action Center on Capitol Hill and has appeared on EWTN’s Women of Grace & At Home With Jim & Joy tv shows, Catholic Answers Live, The Catholic Doctor’s Radio Show, CFN Live, Fox News, C-SPAN, and CNN and has been published in The Linacre Quarterly, The National Catholic Register, The Catholic Times, Focus on the Family and Humanum.

Kimberly is the Executive Producer of the Springs of Love Foster & Adoption Video Stories, which received four awards by the Catholic Media Association in 2024, and are featured on EWTN On-Demand and FORMED. She studied bioethics in Rome at the Regina Apostolorum and earned a Master of Theological Studies degree from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage & Family.

In 2024, Kimberly was named one of OSV News’ 10 Catholics of the Year, alongside Cardinal Seán O’Malley, legendary actor Bob Newhart, WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark, and others. She was selected for her work in raising awareness of foster care as a pro-life issue.

Kimberly and her husband of 16 years, Greg, have fostered and are adoptive parents to four young children in rural Ohio.