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Kristin Groos Richmond currently serves as co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods, an Inc. 500 company. Kristin founded Revolution Foods in 2005 to transform the way we feed our students in this country by serving healthy meals and offering nutrition education to low income students. Prior to founding Revolution Foods, she was vice president of resources for Indispensable Schools and Educators, where she designed and executed strategy that grew the organization from a small community based program to a nationally scalable model working with more than 700 teachers and 60 public schools. From 2000 to 2002, Kristin lived in Nairobi and co-founded the Kenya Community Center for Learning (KCCL). She began her career at Citigroup in investment banking. Kristin is a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions and is a board member of KCCL, Lighthouse Community Charter School, and U.C .Berkeley's Global Social Venture Competition. She is a 2011 Ashoka Fellow, an Education Pioneers Fellow, and an Advisor to the Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Program. Kristin and Co-founder, Kirsten Tobey are one of TIME's 11 Education Activists of 2011. In 2010, NewSchools Venture Fund named Kristin and Kirsten, Entrepreneurs of the Year. In 2007, Kristin won the Global Social Venture Competition for the Revolution Foods model. Kristin holds a BS in finance and accounting from Boston College and an MBA from U.C. Berkeley. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband Steve and two sons, Watts and Caleb. She is a fellow of the second class of the Aspen Institute-NewSchools Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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