Kyra Tirana Barry

Kyra Tirana Barry is a passionate leader and tireless advocate focusing on new or turn around organizations with specific attention to refreshed strategic direction and bringing stakeholders together around a common executable goal.

Kyra is currently the chair of the Committee to Advance Women’s Wrestling, which brings together all major wrestling stakeholders to support growth, a member of D1 Women’s Wrestling, promoting the growth of NCAA varsity programs, and the Chair of the NY State Task Force on Girls Wrestling.

Kyra spent more than a decade promoting sport-based youth development for underserved communities as the President of Beat the Streets New York, which uses the sport of wrestling to teach life-long skills; as founding Chair of Beat the Streets National, which brings together all United States BTS city programs to elevate the mission and expand the reach; and, as a member of the U.S. Soccer Foundation’s NY Leadership Council which supports the Soccer for Success youth program. She was Team Leader for the 2016 U.S. women's wrestling Olympic team and was USA Wrestling's "Woman of the Year" in 2015.

Kyra is Chair Emerita of the Columbia College Alumni Association (CCAA) and has held many leadership positions at Columbia including as the first alumna to head the CCAA and a former member of the Columbia College Board of Visitors.

Kyra received her BA in Urban Studies from Columbia University’s Columbia College in 1987 as a member of the first fully co-ed class, and was a founding member of the varsity soccer team.