Whitney Kimball Coe is the Director of National Programs at the Center for Rural Strategies, a non-profit organization focusing on rural community issues and capacity building with offices in Kentucky and Tennessee. In that role, she leads the Rural Assembly, a nationwide movement striving to build better policy and more opportunity for rural communities across the country. As an organizer, speaker, moderator, and writer, Coe has shared her perspectives on community and civic courage with audiences around the world. She has been featured on stage at the Aspen Ideas Festival and the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit, and as a guest on the radio program, On Being with Krista Tippett. She writes a regular column for her local newspaper, the Daily Post Athenian, and has participated in Citizen University’s Civic Saturday Fellowship program. Coe is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences working group on civic infrastructure.