Kristin is a nonprofit strategy and operations leader with a passion for creating meaningful and measurable impact through partnerships. She specializes in building data-driven, cross-functional operations that grow and adapt to meet the evolving needs of dynamic organizations. Her expertise spans strategic planning, program and field operations, monitoring and evaluation, business process analysis, and people development.
Kristin brings over 14 years of humanitarian experience, having led the Disaster Risk Reduction and Response U.S. & Canada team at Habitat for Humanity International and serving on the Board of Directors of National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD). She led a multi-million-dollar humanitarian aid and climate adaptation program supporting over 1100 communities and has a track record of cultivating authentic relationships across diverse stakeholders to solve complex social issues. She is an AmeriCorps VISTA alum and started her career at New Horizons, an NGO in Guatemala supporting the rights of women and their children. She has held every position from volunteer to senior leader, something she uses to design people-centered systems. Kristin holds a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communications from the University of Georgia and Executive Meta-Leadership Certificate from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard University. She lives in Atlanta, GA with her family and an English cottage garden to walkabout.Skeleton Key Strategies is based in the United States with clients from around the world. We are a fully remote company operating in Lisbon, London, and in the U.S. on the traditional and unceded lands of the Stockbridge-Munsee people of the Mohican nation in Western Massachusetts; and in the Portland, Oregon Metro area, which rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River.