Lawyer by training, gardener at heart
I love helping organisations use the tool in a way to manaaki and support ground-up information flow that helps keep people safe and well.
Originally from Southern California, Kristina grew up across the US and abroad in Tokyo and Hong Kong. She first visited Aotearoa New Zealand with her family at age 12 and has wanted to move here ever since.
Kristina studied Industrial and Labor Relations and law at Cornell before clerking for the Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, the premier venue for corporate and business law in the US. She went on to practise at top-tier law firms in New York City and work with clients in climate tech and social impact investing. When the opportunity came to move to Te Whanganui-a-Tara to study how Western law might become more relational, she jumped!
At ComplyWith, Kristina helps organisations understand their relationship with the law and their legal responsibilities. She works closely with our education customers, focusing on the Pastoral Care Code and where compliance, assurance and quality meet. She’s also on a mission to use fewer words and more pictures, which is no small thing for a lawyer by training.
Outside of work, you’ll find Kristina in the māra or walking the hills with her spouse and Parker the cattle dog. She is active in the community and serves on the governance group for Kaicycle, an urban farm and community composting initiative in Pōneke, and coordinates forest bird and predator monitoring for the Remutaka Conservation Trust.
