Kristina joined London’s Giving as an advisor in November 2019.
She has worked with Londoners for over 30 years in local and national government, as an independent funder and in the voluntary sector. She has always worked with others and developed partnerships of ‘unusual suspects’ - businesses, residents, voluntary organisations, funders and the statutory sector - recognising that no one sector can address structural inequalities and promote social change.
Kristina was the first woman Director of Cripplegate Foundation, a 500 year old grant giving trust where she helped to set up Islington Giving, the first London Giving scheme, in September 2010 to pioneer a new approach to philanthropy and social change.
She now supports the thriving London’s Giving movement. This includes supporting individual schemes, promoting and developing new partnerships and funding and articulating the strategic contribution that place can make to social change.
She believes that PBGS are more than grant giving programmes. Harnessing the often invisible knowledge, assets and resources in places is critical to bringing change.
Kristina is a trustee of Rights of Women the only charity dedicated to providing frontline legal advice to women experiencing all forms of violence against women and girls in England and Wales that also campaigns for access to justice and safety for all women. She is a member of the Goldsmiths' Foundation Charity Advisory Committee.