Claudia Kirk Barto
West Palm Beach

Commissioner Claudia Kirk Barto currently serves as the President & CEO of Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches. Commissioner Barto has numerous years of non-profit leadership experience, most recently Executive Director of the Lupus Foundation of America Southeast Florida Chapter. She has also served at the  Palm Beach Office of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Palm Beach Area Chapter, and United Way of Palm Beach County.  Claudia grew up in Palm Beach where philanthropy is a way of life. She currently serves on Florida Atlantic University's Women's Studies Advisory Board.

She received her degree in communications from Florida State University. In April 2000, she was appointed to the Florida Commission on the Status of Women by Comptroller Bob Milligan and recently reappointed by Commissioner of Agriculture Charles Bronson. Claudia lives in West Palm Beach with her two sons, Wen and Kirk, and daughter Marina.