February’s Rooster Booster will feature Kentucky native Ambassador Kelly Craft, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, and it will highlight the important role of agriculture in the Greater Owensboro region.
The Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce will virtually host the program Thursday at 7:30 a.m.
The program can be viewed via Facebook Live or via Zoom. There is no cost to watch.
This month’s event is sponsored by Daviess County Farm Bureau and Daviess County Cooperative Extension Service.
About Kelly Craft
Ambassador Kelly Craft was nominated by President Donald J. Trump to the position of Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations on February 22, 2019, and was confirmed to that position by the United States Senate on July 31, 2019. She was formally sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence on September 10, 2019.
Craft served as the United States Ambassador to Canada from October 2017 until assumption of her USUN role in 2019. During her time as Ambassador, she worked through the complex revisiting of the NAFTA treaty, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA.
As a third-generation Kentuckian, Craft served her community by assuming several leadership roles with the Salvation Army of Lexington and the Center for Rural Development, a nonprofit dedicated to the economic development of rural Kentucky. She also served in similar roles in the cultural leadership of her state, working with the Kentucky Arts Council and the United Way of the Bluegrass.
Craft has served on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees and co-founded the Morehead State University Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics.
In 2007, President George W. Bush appointed Craft as an alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.
In the private sector, Craft founded a marketing and business advisory firm providing leadership advice to businesses across the country.
Craft is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Morehead State University. She and her husband Joe Craft, who is also native Kentuckian, share six children and 11 grandchildren.
By The Owensboro Times