Kristi Kendall, President at Kristi Kendall and Co, is an expert in content production, messaging and storytelling with a 20+ year career in journalism, media and film. Kristi began her career as a producer at the ABC News magazine, 20/20. In 2009 she became John Stossel’s executive producer at Fox News and Fox Business, where she launched his highly-rated weekly show and oversaw more than a dozen documentary hours for Stossel and others. In 2014 she became the EVP at New Balloon, using moving picture content as a means of encouraging connectivity, compassion, and conversation. Notable projects there included: Kasi Lemmon’s, Harriet, and Cary Fukunaga’s, Beasts of No Nation. In 2019 she started her own company with the mission of “Connecting Hearts and Minds to Ideas that Matter.” As part of that mission, she has worked with dozens of non-profit leaders across the country to sharpen and hone their messages to improve their effectiveness and impact the world. Kristi Kendall and Co. has also produced and directed dozens of video projects including the 2024 feature documentary, UNDIVIDE US, which tackles toxic polarization and demonstrates how each of us, through our communities and individual actions, can stop it. Kristi serves on the boards of the Moving Picture Institute (MPI), the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and Team Democracy. Kristi lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, two teenagers, dog and cat—all in the same apartment.
