Kristina Spiegel

As Chief Operating Officer, Kristina oversees all of FARE’s programmatic pillars, including research, advocacy, and education and health initiatives. She also leads strategic planning, impact measurement and reporting, and ensures organizational effectiveness to translate strategy to results. Kristina has 20 years of experience working as a strategist across public, private, and social sectors, where she has managed matrixed teams within and across organizations.

Prior to joining FARE, Kristina worked in global health NGOs where she oversaw partnership strategy and built large-scale, cross-sector partnerships across UN agencies, industry, nonprofits, and governments to address complex global health challenges. Kristina began her career on Capitol Hill, where she served as a senior policy advisor to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She graduated magna cum laude from Texas Tech University with a BA in Political Science and holds an MBA and a MA in Government from Johns Hopkins University.