Kris Lin-Bronner is the Executive Director of Dr. Bronner’s Family Foundation, which supports the humanitarian goals of the descendants of E.H. Bronner, founder of Dr. Bronner’s, the top-selling brand of natural soaps in North America. As Executive Director, Kris coordinates with the Board of the Family Foundation and Dr. Bronner’s finance department to house and administer grants directed by members of the Bronner family. Since taking leadership of the foundation, Kris established the Migration Justice Initiative (MJI), the foundation’s first public-facing grant program, dedicated to serving refugees, displaced persons, and forced migrants. She is responsible for its grant administration, strategic planning, communications, and policy work, and is committed to ensuring the initiative’s funding priorities stay responsive and relevant to the changing landscape in the US and abroad. She also serves as a key philanthropic advisor to Dr. Bronner’s Constructive Capital, the company’s corporate giving arm.

Prior to her work at the foundation, Kris was the Strategic Adviser and Corporate Social Responsibility Manager for Dr. Bronner’s. In these roles she supervised and counseled many diverse projects, including advising the company’s Fair Trade supply chain projects on financial and operational matters, providing integrated risk assessments on new business ventures, and helping institute sustainability measures across multiple levels of governance and operations. She also spearheaded plans and implementation for sustainable infrastructure at the company’s headquarters, including an onsite solar power generation system, EV charging and employee incentive program, water-wise landscaping, and a regenerative food-forest. While at Dr. Bronner’s, Kris guided the company through the process of becoming a benefit corporation in California and a Certified B-Corp.

Kris earned an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Harvard University and a graduate degree in International Affairs from the School of Policy and Strategy at UCSD. She is a former board member of The AjA Project, an organization that empowers marginalized youth through documentary arts education, and has undergone training as a Zen Buddhist chaplain at the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico