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Kim Johnson (born September 18 1944) is a retired elementary school teacher from Oyster Bay, New York who was the runner-up on the CBS reality television series Survivor: Africa. Kim was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. Kim married Ted Johnson in 1964 and has three children, Wendy, Kerry, and Ted, Jr. Kim attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Monmouth College in Long Branch, New Jersey. Kim has a bachelor of science degree in elementary education.

On Survivor: Africa, Kim was the only female member of the dominant Boran alliance, which also included Tom Buchanan, Lex van den Berghe, and Ethan Zohn (the eventual winner). The members of the minority Samburu alliance, particularly Teresa Cooper, repeatedly tried to swing Kim over to their side, but Kim remained loyal to her alliance and watched as one by one the Samburu tribe was voted out.

A physically weak contestant, Kim was not expected to dominate the immunity challenges. However, once she reached the Final Four with Ethan, Lex, and Tom, she shocked everyone by winning every remaining immunity challenge and forcing Tom and then Lex out of the game. As the winner of the final immunity challenge she chose to keep the popular Ethan and vote out the less-liked Lex because she believed she would lose to either Ethan or Lex in the Final Two and she wanted Ethan to win. Ethan did, defeating Kim 5-2, receiving the votes of Tom, Lex, Teresa, Kelly Goldsmith and Frank Garrison. Kim received the votes of Brandon Quinton and Kim Powers.

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