Kristine Zeigler

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board President

Kristine is co-founder and chief executive officer at Planet Women. For the past 25 years, Kristine has been an environmental nonprofit leader focused on helping nature and people thrive.

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 short story collection set in the American Southwest. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband Joe and serves on the Board of Advisors for Daughters for Earth and 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.