Kristi Kendall, president at Kristi Kendall and Co, is an expert in content production and storytelling with 25+ yrs experience.  Kristi started her career as a journalist, producing for ABC News 20/20, and in 2009 became John Stossel’s executive producer at 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 and worked on film projects such as The Creative Brain with David Eagleman, 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. Her company has also produced and directed dozens of video projects on topics as varied as 3-D printing housing (Feature documentary: Project Home), human rights in Hong Kong (Cato Institute Friedman prize piece on Jimmy Lai), and criminal record expungement (Documentary short: Clean Slate).  Her most recent project, UNDIVIDE US, is a feature documentary tackling toxic polarization and demonstrating how each of us, through our communities and individual actions, can stop it. Kristi serves on two non-profit boards and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, two teenagers, dog, and cat—all in the same apartment.