Craig Kirby

Craig joined the board as a founding board member in the summer of 2020. From the boardroom to the campaign trail, the university lecture hall to the golf course, Craig Kirby has taken the lead in a multitude of situations that has forged his path as the Founder and CEO of the non-profit foundation Golf. My Future. My Game.

Appointed as a Director of the Western Golf Association; he is an Advisory Board Member for the National Golf Player Development Foundation (NGPDF); a member of the PGA of America Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Talent Acquisition Work Group and Co-Chair of the Make Golf Your Thing HBCU Golf Consortium working with the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and universities to increase workforce diversity and awareness of careers within the golf industry, additionally he sits on the DEI Advisory Board of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, the CitySwing Foundation and is a Founding Member of the American Golf Industry Coalition Grassroots Grants Program Committee which provides funding to community-based golf organizations throughout the United States.

Craig, inducted into the 2024 African American Golf Hall of Fame is a recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Alumni award from his alma mater Albion College and a distinguished graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Leadership in the 21st Century Executive Program. His numerous accomplishments include: A Certificate of Achievement from the Center for Popular Economics at Amherst College, Special Assistant to the White House Chief of Staff; President of the American Student Association; Southern Political Director and Director, Office of the Vice Chairs, Democratic National Committee, President, Men of St. John’s at St. John's College High School (Washington, D.C.) and a contestant on Season 1 of the ABC Networks Holey Moley.