Senior Director of Programs, Urban Rural Action
In her role as Senior Director of Programs, Kira leads the team that implements UR Action’s community-based Uniting for Action programs. She is also the co-director of one of those programs, Uniting for Safe and Strong Communities in South-Central Pennsylvania, and thus has regular and ongoing experience leading diverse groups in learning and using UR Action curriculum and tools.
Prior to joining UR Action full time, Kira was on the faculty at Penn State, where she directed the campus honors program and taught students to have constructive conversations about complex issues and emerge from those conversations with deeper understanding and stronger relationships. Her background is in mathematics.