Jade Piros de Carvalho is Vice President of Broadband Advocacy and Partnerships at Bonfire Infrastructure Group. Prior to Bonfire, she served two years as director of the Kansas Office of Broadband Development, where she built the office and oversaw the administration of $650M in federal and state grant programs to connect all Kansans with high-speed broadband. Piros de Carvalho also spent seven years at rural fiber CLEC IdeaTek and served three terms as Mayor for the city of Hutchinson, Kansas. She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a master’s degree in public administration.