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Kelly Craft

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Kelly Craft

US Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Kelly Craft

Ambassador Kelly Craft is the Representative of the United States of America to the United Nation. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Canada. During her time as Ambassador, she worked through the complex revisiting of the NAFTA treaty. Ambassador Kelly Craft is a leader, entrepreneur and philanthropist who has made community service and improving education the cornerstone of her career. As a third-generation Kentuckian, Ambassador Craft served her community by assuming several leadership roles with the Salvation Army of Lexington and the Center for Rural Development, a non-profit 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. Ambassador 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. Ambassador Craft is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Morehead State University. She and her husband, Joe Craft share six children and eleven grandchildren.