Kristin Ford

Director of External Affairs 

Kristin Ford is the Director of External Affairs at GovAct. She has more than 15 years of experience working to protect, advance, and safeguard essential freedoms. Prior to joining GovAct, Kristin served as speechwriter and deputy communications director to then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris and has been part of senior leadership teams in multiple organizations, including NARAL Pro-Choice America (now Reproductive Freedom for All) and United We Dream.  At NARAL, she developed and implemented narrative and communications strategies to drive campaigns and robust federal and state government relations efforts to secure legislation, appropriations bills, and executive actions in support of abortion access.
Kristin also has served as vice president of executive communications at Advocate Health, one of the country’s largest non-profit health systems, where she advised the CEO and developed communications strategies around policy and regulatory topics, including Medicaid expansion, health equity, medical debt and affordability, and environmental sustainability.

She has been quoted in dozens of local, state, national, and international publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, AP, Politico, and the Los Angeles Times. She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.