Kristin Russo is a producer, speaker, and consultant with a focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) issues.
Kristin speaks regularly to businesses and their Employee Resource Groups on topics such as creating equitable and safe(r) workspaces, being a powerful ally to colleagues and community, and parenting LGBTQ children. She also speaks with students and faculty at middle school, high school, and college campuses.
She has spoken at hundreds of universities nationwide including Harvard, Stanford, and NYU and has worked with large-scale companies such as Bloomberg, Genpact, and The NCUA on allyship & inclusion.
Kristin is co-creator of Everyone Is Gay & My Kid Is Gay, author of This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids (Chronicle, 2014), and was host and producer of First Person, a video series on gender and sexuality from PBS Digital and WNET. She also holds a Master’s in Gender Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center.
In 2016, Kristin began working as Executive Producer and co-host of the now critically-acclaimed pop culture podcast, Buffering the Vampire Slayer.
Thanks to the support of the larger community on Patreon, Kristin offers low & no-cost Virtual Events to middle & high school GSAs & library groups. Students choose the topics they are most interested in discussing, whether that is engaging with their community in positive ways, dealing with friends or family who are unsupportive, helping to make their schools safer spaces, or learning more about being LGBTQ. If you’re interested in having Kristin donate a talk to your group, click here!
