Kira Everhart-Valentin
Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations (Gates Ag One)
Kira Everhart-Valentin is the Alliance manager for cowpea at Gates Ag One, where she helps lead ACIA’s activities. She has previously served as the sustainability director at the United Sorghum Checkoff Program, where she led the establishment of an industry-level sustainability program for U.S. sorghum that helped position sorghum as a sustainable solution for food, feed and energy sectors and serve the global community and its needs for nutritional and environmental health. She has also served as the program coordinator with the USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet at Kansas State University. In this role, she managed a global program on sorghum and millet with partners across nine different countries.