Kirsten Grish
Administrator, Human Resources and Finance
As the Administrator—Human Resources and Finance, Kirsten supports both departments with a variety of tasks including; managing projects, budget-tracking, record-keeping, approving expenses, visa assistance, research and coordination for Verra events, maintaining the VerraVerse department sites, and handling employee requests.
Prior to Verra, she worked 16 years for Esri’s intel division, providing support for domestic and international teams. She has over 30 years’ administrative experience and holds ASAP’s PACE (Professional Administrative Certification of Excellence) and Office Dynamic’s CWCA (Certified World Class Assistant).
Kirsten studied ecology and geology at the University of Arizona. Later, she was thrilled to spend a year as a volunteer gathering data on great white sharks with a research team out of Gansbaai, South Africa.
When she’s not working, you can find Kirsten outdoors hiking and discovering nature, including maintaining her Virginia Master Naturalist certification, and pursuing wilderness survival/navigation/first aid training. Other outdoor activities she’s crazy about are camping, snowboarding, and SCUBA. To satiate her creative and meditative side, she escapes through her photography and exploring various dance forms.