Claudia Kirk Barto
West Palm Beach

Claudia Kirk Barto is the Executive Director of the Lupus Foundation of America, Southeast Florida Chapter.

Commissioner Barto has numerous years of non-profit leadership experience, most recently as Executive Director of the Palm Beach Office of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Prior to that she served as Deputy Executive Director for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society were she began her crusade to inspire her generation to give back. She spent six years with the United Way of Palm Beach County learning the intricacies of area nonprofits and the many needs that go unmet in her community. 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 and as President of the South Olive Elementary PTO President.

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, Wren and Kirk, and daughter Marina.