Kimberly Boudreaux

Kimberly Boudreaux has served as CEO of Catholic Charities of Acadiana for the past 20 years. A visionary thought leader with a proven record of identifying and implementing evidence-based solutions, she addresses complex social issues with a core focus on poverty, hunger, homelessness, disaster, and housing.

Under Boudreaux's leadership, Catholic Charities of Acadiana has dramatically expanded its response to homelessness, building out street outreach services, a hygiene center, low-barrier emergency shelters for men, women, and veterans, permanent supportive housing, and homelessness prevention programs. In recognition of the agency's needle-moving work on family homelessness, Catholic Charities of Acadiana received a $5 million award from Jeff Bezos' Day One Fund.

Boudreaux has also broadened the agency's mission well beyond homelessness to include a soup kitchen, food bank, disaster response and long-term recovery, sign language interpretation services for the deaf and hard of hearing, and a social enterprise retail store, Crossroads Collective. Through its Rebuilding Together program, the agency provides critical home repairs, renovations, and accessibility additions for low-income and disabled homeowners. In 2012, Boudreaux initiated the annual Burial of the Unclaimed, which has since offered dignified burials to more than 800 individuals.

In 2024, Boudreaux was honored by Pope Francis with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice ("For the Church and Pope"), one of the highest honors the Vatican bestows on lay Catholics — and the first such honor conferred in the Diocese of Lafayette in 70 years. The award recognized her decades of distinguished service to the Church and to the most vulnerable in her community.



She has served as a Commissioner on the Lafayette Housing Authority and as a board member for Catholic Charities USA, the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations, the Leadership Institute of Acadiana, Acadiana VOAD, and the Acadiana Housing Alliance. She represents CCUSA on the Mass Care Committee for National VOAD, serves on the National Legal Services Corporation Congressional Housing Task Force, is a charter member of the Acadiana Chapter of Legatus, and is the founder of the Downtown Lafayette Faith Alliance. Boudreaux is a candidate with the Federal Association of the Order of Malta. She also advocates on Capitol Hill alongside the National Alliance to End Homelessness and serves as a regular presenter in their workshops and training initiatives.

Kim resides in Lafayette, Louisiana, with her husband, Matt Boudreaux, and their three daughters, Claire (18), Elizabeth (15), and Kate (13).