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We are thrilled to announce that the YANA Board unanimously approved the hiring of Kristin Urquiza ’03 as YANA’s next Executive Director. With 20+ years of experience as a nonprofit professional, Kristin has achieved groundbreaking policy victories for people and the planet. Key accomplishments include establishing Baby Bonds in California and contributing to the passage of European Union trade laws to protect Indigenous forest peoples and Nature by ensuring consumer product supply chains are free from deforestation.
At the height of the pandemic, Kristin co-founded Marked By Covid, a volunteer-led survivor movement working to prevent future pandemics, increase funding for Long Covid research, and establish a National Covid Memorial. Her work has been featured across the major media including the New York Times, Washington Post, Scientific American, Rolling Stone, MSNBC, CNN, and BBC. In 2020, she was a guest speaker at the Democratic National Convention.
In addition to her BA from Yale, Kristin earned an MPA in Public Policy at Berkeley. On a personal note, she is the first person in her family to attend college and is the proud granddaughter of migrant and immigrant farmworkers from Oklahoma and Mexico. She lives in San Francisco with her partner, Christine, and in her spare time enjoys walking in Golden Gate Park with her beloved rescue dog, Blaze.
Kristin can be reached at kristin@yalenonprofitalliance.org — please feel free reach out to her with a warm YANA welcome!
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