Kristine Zeigler

Co-Founder, Special Advisor to the Board, Fundraising & Capacity Building

Kristine is co-founder and former chief executive officer of Planet Women. For the past 26 years, Kristine has been an environmental nonprofit leader focused on helping all beings to thrive on a healthy Earth. Previously, Kristine served as Conservation International’s Chief Development Officer and Director of Philanthropy at The Nature Conservancy in California, raising funds for global land, water, ocean and science programs. Kristine also served as Director of Development at Yosemite Conservancy and worked at the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the San Francisco Zoological Society.

Kristine studied art history and French at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. She holds a private pilot license and flies a Cessna and a Piper. A published fiction author and creative writing teacher, she supports and mentors nature writers as co-founder of New Nature Writers. Kristine is currently working on a nonfiction title, Fundraiser’s Companion – A Reference to Demystify Major Gifts and the Fundraising Process, a book for anyone who finds themselves in fundraising and needs to look up how to do something or how to understand part of their job. She lives and works as a guest on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Salinan and nearby, the Northern Chumash in California’s Central Coast. Kristine serves on the Board of Advisors for Daughters for Earth and the Advisory Board for the Institute for Integrative Conservation at the College of William & Mary. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Mono Lake Committee.