2019 Alumni Medalist Kirsten Frivold Imohiosen '03SIPA
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 2019-10-16

Kirsten Frivold Imohiosen ’03SIPA is a managing director in the Finance Division at Goldman Sachs. She manages the state and local tax function for the firm, including responsibility for overseeing domestic income and non-income state tax compliance processes, new deal due diligence, state tax research, audit defense and review of the effective state tax rate. Imohiosen is the chair of the SIPA Alumni Association, and has been involved with the organization since its inception in 2007. She is the co-founder of the Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) Forum, an alumni organization focused on social and policy-oriented events for current and former Columbia SIPA EMPA students.

Previously, she served as a two-term board member of the Columbia Alumni Association (CAA), chairing the Programs Committee, where she curated the annual CAA Family STEM Day, bringing together over 500 alumni and their children to learn and participate in STEM happenings across the University. Imohiosen was also a board member for 10 years of Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners, a non-profit organization that promotes the economic empowerment of low-income and underbanked families in New York City, and was a Fellow in the David Rockefeller Fellowship program sponsored by the Partnership for New York City. Imohiosen received a BA from the State University of New York at Albany, an MBA from Fordham University, and an MPA from SIPA. She lives in Morningside Heights with her husband and children.