Kristen joined CAG in 2024 as Managing Director. Kristen brings extensive experience having led a $75M non-profit organization for over a decade, with a staff of 115 across three locations. She is the co-founder of Harvesting Good, a mid-scale vegetable processing company in Maine. 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 catalogue 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 financial planning and leadership and ownership transition consulting. She received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Boston College and a masters 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 Harvesting Good and Daily Table in Dorchester, Massachusetts.