Kris Tompkins
Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (born June 1950) is the president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, an American conservationist, former CEO of Patagonia, Inc., a UN Patron of Protected Areas from 2018-2022. She has committed her career to protecting and restoring Chile and Argentina’s wild beauty and biodiversity by creating national parks, restoring the wildlife, inspiring activism, and fostering economic vitality as a result of conservation. Having protected over 14 million acres of parklands in Chile and Argentina through Tompkins Conservation and its partners, Kristine and Douglas Tompkins, her late husband who died in 2015, are considered some of the most successful national park-oriented philanthropists in history.
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Tompkins in 2015 | |
| Born | Kristine McDivitt June 1950 (age 73) Santa Paula, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Conservationist, businesswoman |
| Organization(s) | Patagonia, Tompkins Conservation |
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| Website | tompkinsconservation |
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