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 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.

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. I have 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.