Kristen joined CAG as Managing Director in 2024. She spent more than a decade as the president of Good Shepherd Food Bank, leading the organization through several transformational growth periods. While at the Food Bank, she grew revenues from $25M to over $100 million, centered its mission on nutrition and equity, and increased distribution from 10M to over 35M meals annually. She was the co-founder of Harvesting Good, a Maine-based vegetable processing company. Prior to her non-profit work, Kristen worked for over a decade as a financial and strategic advisor. She was a senior advisor to a family office overseeing micro- and small-call public and private equity investments and served on the leadership team of a start-up consumer catalog and e-commerce business. In her early career, she served as an advisor to family-owned businesses, where she was a certified business appraiser and provided strategic and ownership transition consulting. She received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Boston College and a master's in business administration from Boston University. She has served on several non-profit boards and community advisory councils and currently serves on the boards of Focus Maine and MEMIC.