Hi, I'm Christie 👋🏼

I’m an investor, producer and writer and currently advise foundations on impact investing and narrative change. I also like doing creative projects - I’ve done things like buying a rural movie theater with a group of friends and organizing this billboard campaign against Islamophobia in San Francisco.

I have been working at the intersection of media, technology and social change for more than 20 years. I began my career as an independent film distributor at Women Make Movies, and I am the former President of New Media Ventures, where I oversaw investment into more than 80 progressive startups. I do some writing (Nonprofit Mergers & Acquisitions, Reflections on Restoration) some speaking (Lean Impact), and some moderating (What Makes for a Strong Presidential Transition). My work has been featured in Politico, Vice and the Wall Street Journal as well as books like Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change, Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success and Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good.

My creative work has been included in Southern Exposure’s Annual Juried Show This Will Never Work and the This Is What I Want festival; and I produced the award-winning documentary feature Hunting in Wartime (PBS) and the animated short Confessions of a Jumbotron Addict. I have a particular interest in collaborative and ekphrastic art, especially work that explores and expands the idea of collective authorship. My most recent project is The Emergency Was Curiosity, an illustrated book report, exhibition and event series focused on cultivating creative attention. I have a BA from Yale University and an MBA with distinction from the University of Oxford where I was a Skoll Scholar and was awarded the Said Prize.