Kristi Kendall, president at Kristi Kendall and Co, is an expert in content production, messaging and storytelling, widely recognized for her work with high profile individuals about how they present themselves and their stories.  Throughout the course of her 25+ year career, Kristi has developed an expertise in leveraging the power of story to bring together unlikely collaborators to work synergistically on projects that help shape public opinion and impact.

Kristi began her career in 1997 at the ABC News magazine 20/20 where she produced nearly a hundred pieces and specialized in humanizing and communicating engaging narratives about complex policy and economic ideas.  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 include The Creative Brain with David Eagleman, Kasi Lemmon’s, Harriet, Cary Fukunaga’s, Beasts of No Nation and Rodrigo Garcia’s, Last Days in the Desert.

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.  Her company has also produced and directed dozens of video projects on topics as varied as 3-D printing housing (Feature documentary: Project Home), white-water rafting to overcome political polarization (RAFT for America), human rights in Hong Kong (Cato Institute Friedman prize piece on Jimmy Lai), criminal record expungement (Documentary short: Clean Slate), globalization (Cato Institute: Faces of Globalization series) and child welfare (AEI: No Way to Treat a Child Series).  Her most recent feature documentary, UNDIVIDE US, tackles toxic polarization and demonstrates how each of us, through our communities and individual actions, can stop it. 

Kristi is the recipient of the Paul Mongerson Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Michael DeBakey Journalism Award, the NLGJA/Siegenthaler Excellence in Journalism Award, the Templeton-Cambridge fellowship and was recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for her role in ABC's coverage of September 11, 2001. 

Kristi lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, two kids, dog and cat —all in the same apartment.