Kris has managed the Changemakers.net website since it was launched in the spring of 1998. Prior to working for Ashoka, he had been developing Web sites since 1993, managing the launch of sites for clients including the National Press Club and the Biotechnology Industry Organization. He has been Assistant Editor of the Saturday Review magazine and contributing editor of BioCentury newsletter. He has worked throughout the world as a Washington-based freelance journalist and television news producer for clients including the Nippon TV Network and NHK Television of Japan, and a wide range of print publications including Emerging Markets, The World & I, Japan Times Weekly, and New Scientist. He covered the early evolution of the web for publications such as Internet World, Network World, CommunicationsWeek, Datamation, ComputerWorld and ComputerWorld Japan, MacWeek and Macintosh Today, and Computer Graphics World. After receiving a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Kris worked for the Ft. Collins, Colorado, City Manager's Office and the Boston Housing Authority's Economic Development Office.