Darby Kirven is the Development Officer of the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy. She has ten years’ experience across food and beverage, healthcare, and public education sectors securing partnerships, supporting operational quality, and connecting a variety of stakeholders to scale program initiatives. Her roles at Build Health International and the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics focused on sponsor recruitment, board relations, portfolio management, and fundraising operations. She has a dual degree in Biology and International Affairs from the honors college at the University of South Carolina. Throughout university, she worked on research projects locally and abroad across disciplines including political science, community psychology, and molecular biology. She has served on the executive committee of the SC Governor’s School Alumni Advisory board since 2020 and was raised on a farm in the southeastern US.