Kristin Lindblad is an artist, philanthropist, and conservationist who supports valuable projects, causes, and initiatives through strategic giving, visual and literary storytelling, and communications strategy.
She spends much of her time navigating life — and the planet — with her husband, Sven Lindblad, founder of Lindblad Expeditions, a global leader in environmentally responsible expedition travel and Ocean advocacy. Together, they run the Wanderlust Fund and value providing crucial funds to organizations doing important work with cultural and environmental protection, global relief efforts, children, and the arts.
You can read samples of her environmentally focused feature writing on Scientific American, Newsweek and Virgin platforms. She also serves in an official advisory capacity to Beneath the Waves, WildAid, Ocean Unite, the Reefline of Blue Lab Preservation Society, PangeaSeed Foundation and Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation.
Kristin is most comfortable under the sea and her friends just refer to her as Mermaid. She is an avid scuba diver, free diver, kite surfer, and has a keen interest in yoga, meditation, and wellness practices. KristinLindblad.com
The Ocean has always brought me great peace and happiness, its ever changing landscape has held my attention and calmed my spirit, particularly in my adult years living in coastal communities Charleston, South Carolina and Maui, Hawaii. As I began to get to know her more intimately - spending more time exploring her depths around the world - I understood just how small we are compared to the big blue beating heart of the planet. You realize that her health is your health, no blue no green….
"Gift giving is my primary love language, so it ends up making a lot of sense that my life has taken me on a path focused on non-profit development work and now giving through our donor advised fund. We focus mainly on smaller grants that can make a big difference, and I prefer to be more of an activist donor in that the organizations we support I also am keen to be more involved with in an advisory or Board capacity or just in sharing the work they are doing. Re: my social platforms, I personally prefer to post less, with more … meaning, the last thing we want to do is to add to the noise in the room. My goal is to purposefully share and have engagement with people that care to dig deeper into information and consciously implement that into their own sharing and caring. I have personally always loved the idea of building community around my work, and have primarily focused my social platforms on sharing photos and information surrounding our cause-related travel and explorations and our philanthropic partnerships."
Just do it! The best cliché there is! I think the one thing that is hurting us most is apathy and inaction. Every single person on this planet can take small actions each and every day, being examples for each other and the next generation! I think of plastic trash on beaches as a great example. What if every person just took a bag of collected trash with them when they left the beach? Another example, if you choose to eat fish, eat locally as you can or sustainably, killing the market for mass commercialization of the biomass of our oceans. When the buying stops, the killing will too! We all have incredible and varied talents, and they can all be put to use to fight the most critical challenge facing our world today: the health of our habitat.
When I started scuba diving in 2015 it was a really shifting moment for me, because for the first time I was seeing with my own eyes the reality of what undersea life looked like. I had been an ocean athlete for years, but with scuba diving I had access to longer amounts of times, underwater …. and in remote and wild places that highlighted experiences and landscapes that shifted my perception of what life on earth really meant. Our human existence was a relatively small part when compared to the vast undersea and her animals. It was also shocking because I would be in very remote places in the world, some of the most remote, and see the shocking evidence of things like ocean plastic pollution and overfishing. I was dumbfounded to be out in places where humans seemed so far away, yet the oceans were bare of fish. I thought for sure that if every human was able to personally experience the things I was seeing, their appreciation for the ocean.
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