Kirby Wilbur was born in Washington DC and moved to Seattle at the age of 8. He attended Queen Anne High School and the University of Washington where he graduated with a BA in History. He has also studied at Hillsdale College and Georgetown University.

He was the host of the morning drive show on 570 KVI radio in Seattle for nearly 16 years. He was named several times during his career as one of the top 100 talk show hosts in America by Talker’s magazine, the leading talk radio trade journal. Before becoming a talk show host, he was a real estate appraiser and owned his own firm, Liberty Consultants.

He has been involved in conservative politics for over 35 years and has served in numerous grassroots volunteer and leadership positions. Kirby’s record as a grassroots organizer dates back to 1994, when he was a primary organizer of a July rally in Seattle against then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s health care reform. This record continued in 2005, when he oversaw a statewide effort to repeal a gas tax increase. The initiative gathered 442,000 signatures in 30 days.

He is a much sought-after speaker, has appeared on Fox News, CSPAN, Fox Business Channel and network news, and has received numerous awards from family, law enforcement, charitable and political organizations, including The Fund for American Studies, Young America’s Foundation and Families Northwest.

For the last twelve years, he has taught American and World History and American Government and Economics to high schoolers in several home school groups. He is an avid reader, primarily of current events and American and military history. Kirby is also the co-author of Say The Right Thing, a collection of conservative quotes.

He and his wife Trina have been married for 28 years and have two sons, Nathan, 27 and Adam, 22.