Kirk is a veteran community organizer who has successfully founded community organizations in Chicago, Birmingham England, and Ohio. In his twenty years as an organizer, he’s led campaigns on a variety of issues from securing fair and affordable housing to criminal justice reform to raising the wages of retail workers. Currently, Kirk directs a set of movement aligned and owned LLCs including a consulting co-op that advises an array of national and state donors, a field vendor executes large scale electoral programs, and a social justice taproom and Mexican Kitchen that houses the Drink Your Values project. Kirk also serves on the boards of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a statewide grassroots power organization, Policy Matters Ohio, one of the state’s premier progressive think tanks, and is the treasurer of the Safety and Justice Action PAC which focuses on electing and supporting progressive prosecutors across the country.