Kristin has spent her career building and growing innovative human capital-centered companies across the education and healthcare sectors in a variety of leadership roles. Her experience spans mission-driven startup and growth stage companies in both the private and non-profit space. She’s an accomplished executive, operator, and people leader, specializing in spearheading strategy, growth, organizational development, change leadership, and communications.
Most recently, Kristin was the Chief Talent Officer at Oxeon, a venture studio, investment, and executive search firm in healthcare, where she led to and through a Founder-to-CEO transition and other strategic people and communications initiatives. Prior to that, Kristin was the Head of Growth for The KIND Foundation where she was a founding executive. She oversaw the creation, launch, marketing and communications, and international expansion of the $20M signature corporate social responsibility initiative, Empatico, an ed-tech platform to develop empathy among children around the world. Before that, she spent 7 years at Teach For America during its peak growth years, culminating in the role of Vice President, Strategy. There, she developed the organization’s national strategy, pivoting from a teacher pipeline to a leadership pipeline, and pioneered their national executive leadership program, recognized for its innovative methodology and impact.
Kristin is Vice Chair of the Board of Futures Ignite, which was incubated in a NYC public high school to significantly increase graduation and college rates and is now growing. She is also an Advisory Board Member of the National Institute of Student Success, which replicates the pioneering, nationally recognized work at Georgia State that radically improved graduation rates and closed equity gaps at other college institutions.
Kristin got her start as a journalist, as a second grade teacher, and by learning from her serial-entrepreneur father who showed her both the power and risk of entrepreneurship to create positive change and impact. Growing up in a low-income household, she has personally experienced the life-changing effects of quality education, healthcare, and financial literacy. She grew up on the west coast and now Brooklyn, NY is home, where she lives with her husband Chad, son Hayes, and dog Fia.