Kristen Cruise

Kristen has spent her career working to grow the social impact of businesses. She loves solving for strategic and operational change. Kristen’s past experiences include philanthropy and disaster relief at The Wonderful Company, creating programs and policies to reduce food marketing to children at The Walt Disney Company, and managing a county-wide program to improve restaurant kids’ meals with Los Angeles Department of Public Health.

In her free time, Kristen is an active board member focusing on nonprofits supporting healthier emotional and physical lives for our youth. She spent six years with Girls on the Run Los Angeles and is in her fifth year with Playworks Southern California. She has a MBA and Masters in Urban Planning from UCLA and a BS in Engineering from Tufts University.