Beverly Kirk

Senior Associate (Non-resident), International Security Program
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Beverly Kirk

Beverly Kirk is director of Washington programs and professor of practice at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. She is based in Washington and is also part of the Syracuse Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship. She previously served as executive director of JOURNEY to Lead, a nonprofit women’s leadership initiative. Prior to JOURNEY, Kirk was fellow and director for outreach for the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and director of its Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative. Before joining CSIS, Kirk was a journalist working for local and national news organizations including NBC, NPR, and PBS covering domestic and international politics and government. She is a member of the national advisory board of the University of Kentucky Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and a member of the board of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security. Kirk holds an MA in diplomacy and international commerce with a concentration in international politics and national security from the University of Kentucky and is a summa cum laude graduate of Western Kentucky University with degrees in history and broadcast journalism.