In the same year she founded the registered association "Bread and Books", which promotes the education of children in Africa, Germany and India.

In 1995, she was sponsored by the German Ministry of the Interior at the "Casa Baldi" in Olevano Romano near Rome and in 1996 she received a scholarship at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.

Kinkel is a member of the PEN Centre Germany and the Federal Association of Young Authors (BVjA).

In 2006, the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art appointed her to the board of trustees of the International Artists' House Villa Concordia, Bamberg.

[2] In 2017, Kinkel was a tower clerk in the small town of Abenberg in Central Franconia, the first woman to hold this position.