Community & Partner Call: Building Resilience in Uncertain Times (Members Only)

Kristin leads NFF’s national Client Services practice, which delivers a wide variety of financing and consulting services to NFF’s community-centered clients, funders, and investors across the US. She leads a team of 50 that bring grounded perspectives along with innovative capital and capacity building to organizational, sector, and systems-levels opportunities and challenges. Kristin oversees a financing portfolio of over $200 million and she brings 30 years of experience in the nonprofit and finance sectors to her work. Throughout her career, she has focused on strategic and management support for frontline organizations and financing for both nonprofit and for-profit enterprises. Prior to joining NFF, Kristin was a Vice President at Citigroup Global Markets, where she managed bond financings for various financial institutions and governmental clients, both domestic and international. Kristin came to Citigroup after an initial career in the nonprofit sector, where she worked for over eight years for the international nonprofit organization, Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance, providing international technical assistance programs in rural communities.

Kristin earned a master’s degree in public affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Kenyon College. Kristin brings her experience to various boards, including Board Chair of The Access Challenge, a pan Africa public health organization, and as an Independent Member of the American Bank of Investments, a private bank in Albania.

Rakiba Kibria (she/her) is a nationally recognized nonprofit leader, strategist, and fundraiser with over 16 years of experience mobilizing resources for transformative social change. She currently serves as Vice President of Resource Development at Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), where she leads bold partnership strategies to unlock catalytic capital for environmental justice, racial equity, grassroots leadership, and community wealth and wellbeing.

Rakiba’s career spans leadership roles at Common Future, Good Shepherd Services, and The DOME Project where she has moved $100M+ into community-led initiatives. She is a 2022–2023 fellow of the Just Economy Institute (JEI), where she explored the intersection of Islamic finance and justice through a creative capital project. Across her work with philanthropy, impact investors, and community stakeholders, Rakiba is known as a thoughtful matchmaker of capital and vision — bringing care, curiosity, and co-creation to every table she joins.

Rooted in Queens, New York and grounded in her Bangladeshi heritage, Rakiba channels ancestral wisdom from a lineage of farmers, educators, healers, and freedom fighters. Her work is infused with fire and focus — always in service of legacy. She believes philanthropy and impact investing have the power and responsibility to act as risk capital in repairing the historic and ongoing harm of extraction, exploitation, and systemic injustice.

When she’s not activating resources or designing bold funding strategies, Rakiba finds joy in nature, play, and nurturing her children’s imaginations — always dreaming toward futures that will outlive her.

Rakiba holds a B.A. in International Development and Economics from American University and an M.S. in Nonprofit Management from Columbia University, where she also served as an associate instructor.