Kristen is a strategic leader, operator and creator of products, companies, and cities. Financial services executive, entrepreneur, COO, CPO background. Expert networker and connector to build partnerships and organizations. Passionate about financial inclusion, equality, and building community. Kristen is currently the Managing Director of CAFE, where she built and leads a non-profit organization with a fintech accelerator program focused on advancing financial wellness for underserved communities. She has deep experience as a product executive at large asset managers and as a fintech start-up entrepreneur. She was chosen as an "Inspiring Fintech Female 2023" by NYC Fintech Women and a "RealList Connector 2024" by Technical.ly.Prior experiences include product consulting for a venture capital platform based on web3 tokenization model. Kristen spent 3 years as part of the founding team, COO, and Head of Product of Seeds Investor, a fintech startup that empowers financial advisors to deliver more personalized, values-aligned investment portfolios for clients. As a base for her career, Kristen spent nearly 15 years at BlackRock and JPMorgan designing and building investment products for wealth advisory and private bank clients. She is an experienced product developer that excels at strategic vision and leading cross-functional teams to build meaningful, client-focused products and platforms.She has been very involved in financial inclusion work, including as a board member for MicroDreams, a microfinance non-profit. Also, she is an advisor to Telosa (a new city being build on equitism) and and advisor to ShareChange, an app that enables financial wellness and microfinance giving.The time is now where the intersection of technology and social consciousness is propelling us to make choices about the impact we are having in the world!