Kristine Stratton

Executive Director

Kristine Stratton joined Waterkeeper Alliance in September 2007 as Executive Director. She is responsible for overall strategic planning and implementation, board relations, development, communications and overseeing the healthy functioning of the Alliance. Kristine joined WKA after serving as vice president of finance and operations for the Conservation Law Foundation, an environmental advocacy organization with a 44-year history in the New England region. While there, she oversaw all organizational operations, including strategic program planning and evaluation, and partnered with the President on board management and organizational communications for CLF and its affiliates, CLF Ventures and Environmental Insurance Agency. Prior to CLF, she spent more than a decade at WGBH, the Boston-based flagship public broadcaster. She left WGBH as senior director of business operations with responsibility for planning, operations management and new developments for the $60 million television and radio station division. During her tenure, she collaborated on overall budget planning for the $200 million institution and on the transition of the station from analog to digital through the launch of their first interactive website and first suite of digital cable channels for live and on-demand viewing.

Kristine received her B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University and M.A. in Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University. Kristine has engaged in numerous pro bono projects to aid non-profit organizations with mission critical needs, including a diversity study for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and an economics review of a proposed wind farm for the Appalachian Trail Conference. Kristine grew up hiking and paddling the mountains and rivers of Maine, and continues to enjoy those pursuits along with a passion for sailing.