Kirk Smothers

Kirk Smothers is the Head of School at DVFriends. Over the course of more than thirty years, Kirk has been a teacher, college admissions officer, college guidance director, and Upper School director. He joined DVFriends from Mary McDowell Friends School in Brooklyn, New York, where he was the founding director of the Upper School. Prior to that, Kirk was the Upper School Director at The Calhoun School on Manhattan's Upper West Side. 

Kirk earned his B.A. from Cornell College with a double major in History and Economics & Business. He holds a Master of Education degree from Columbia University, Teachers College, Klingenstein Center, as well as an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Kirk is also a graduate of the Institute for Engaging Leadership in Friends Schools of the Friends Council on Education.
Currently, Kirk serves as a trustee and is a member of the executive committees of the Friends Council on Education and the Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools. He also serves on the School Committee of Abington Friends School. Previously, he served as a trustee of Mary McDowell Friends School before founding its Upper School and the New York Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
 
Kirk is a member of the Brooklyn Monthly Meeting. He is married to Sarah Clarke, who is the Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in New York. He is also the very proud parent of Casey, a Friends school graduate, athlete, and college student.