M.B.A., M.A. in International Relations - Boston University, Boston, MA (1999)

Ms. Kirby has been an instructor at the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University since August 2005, and currently teaches courses in Global Economics, Economic Development, and Principles of Macroeconomics and Microeconomics.  Prior to this, she taught courses in International Trade & Investments, Economic Development, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics at Menlo College (Atherton, CA) and at the University of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA).

As a consultant, Ms. Kirby provided competitive intelligence, market research and business strategies for clients across a range of industries including trade development, telecoms, food, commercial aviation, software, commercial insurance, consumer electronics, non-profits, entertainment, business conference development, and educational travel.  

Some of the projects spearheaded by Ms. Kirby include: market entry strategies for small & medium-sized New England firms interested in expanding into China and SE Asia; marketing strategy for telecom customer care & billing software provider; market surveys that profile likely purchaser/user of new innovations and the development of a marketing position for the innovation; turned money-losing programs into highly profitable ones; expansion of international medical exchange programs; development of lecture series on public international law, anthropology and development economics, with onsite presentations in China, India, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Egypt, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Falkland Islands, Australia, New Zealand, and the former Soviet Union. 

Ms. Kirby’s areas of interest include: the Industrial and Competition Policies of the European Union; the Political Economy of the People's Republic of China; US-Sino Relations; Trade Theory; Development Economics; Economic Development of Brazilian and Peruvian Rainforest Regions; small NGOs; US Foreign Policy; and Public International Law. 

Ms Kirby obtained her Master of Business Administration and a Master of Art in International Relations from Boston University, Massachusetts (1999).