Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is an American author, speaker, radio host, co-founder and the executive director/CEO of MomsRising.org. In May 2006 Joan Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founded MomsRising.

Portrait of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner in 2009

Biography

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is the director of MomsRising. She is also the host of "Breaking Through - Powered by MomsRising"^[1] that airs on 1150AM in Seattle,^[2] and also airs on other stations across the nation, including TuneIn's Progressive Voices Network, as well as on iTunes and other outlets as a podcast.^[3]

In 2005 Rowe-Finkbeiner wrote The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy which was awarded first place by the Independent Book Publishers Association in the category of Women's Issues.^[4] Rowe-Finkbeiner also co-wrote with Joan Blades The Motherhood Manifesto which won the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize.^[5] In 2018, Rowe-Finkbeiner wrote Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World. ^[6]

Rowe-Finkbeiner is married to former Washington State Senator Bill Finkbeiner.^[7] They live in Washington state with their two children.^[8]

Honors and awards

• Independent Book Publishers Association Award, Women's Issues for The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy^[9]
• Rockwood Institute Leadership Fellowship ^[10]
• Hunt Alternatives Fund's Prime Movers: Cultivating Social Capital Fellowship ^[11]
• Washington State League of Women Voters Good in Government Award ^[12]