Valerie Corcoran
Since 2016, Valerie Corcoran has served as President of the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival in Kona, Hawaii. Valerie has been a long time Festival board member and Festival volunteer. She also served as Vice President prior to becoming President. Valerie's festival and community experience, knowledge and energy have been helping Hawaii's oldest food festival continue to evolve and grow. Since 1991, Valerie started volunteering with the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival when she moved to a coffee farm. She chaired the Festival's Farm Fair and became the Festival's Operations Director. Born and raised in Kona, Valerie grew up on a coffee farm where she worked alongside her family picking Kona's famous harvest.