This is a private, no-host monthly breakfast series and is by invitation only.  Our November event will feature an interactive presentation and provide an opportunity for you to interact with WPC board and staff members, as well as other Eastside business and political leaders.  As always, we encourage you to bring a guest that is interested in learning more about WPC.

*Please note: We are resuming this series in 2018 at our new location – The Bellevue Grille – which shares a parking lot with the Sheraton hotel in downtown Bellevue.

Featured Speaker: Kirby Wilbur

Kirby was born in Washington DC and moved with his family to the Seattle area at the age of eight. He graduated from Queen Anne High School and the University of Washington with a degree in history. He has also attended summer courses at Georgetown University and Hillsdale College.

He has been active in politics since high school and has served in various positions, including state chairman of the Young Republicans ( 1979-1981) and has been a delegate or alternate delegate to eight national Republican conventions.

He has worked for the King County Assessor and owned his own real estate appraisal firm, Liberty Consultants. He began working for KVI in 1993, doing the 9PM - 12 Midnight shift, moving to morning drive, 5-9 AM in January, 1995, where he was until leaving the station in November, 2009. He also taught home-schooled high school students during this time in American and World History and American Government and Economics.

After leaving KVI, he worked as state director of Americans for Prosperity, was elected state chairman of the Republican Party in 2011, and left that position in July, 2013, to become executive director of the National Journalism Center in Reston Virginia. There, he worked with college students wishing to enter the profession of journalism, training them in fact-based and accurate reporting, not based on personal agendas or political narratives.

He returned to the airwaves on KVI on January 4, 2016.

He and his wife Trina have been married since November, 1980. They met on the Reagan campaign. They have two sons, Nathan and Adam.