Kim Nelson is originally from Vancouver. She has been based in Windsor since 2005. She has a BA in Film from UBC and an MFA in Film from York University.

Kim Nelson is the Director of the Humanities Research Group and an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor. She is a filmmaker with an interest in historiography and the philosophy of history, as well as spectatorship, expanded/live cinema and immersive, participatory and performance modes of the exhibition as they relate to documentary film.