Krista Davidson Flint

Krista Davidson Flint has spent 30 years in the field of asset-based community development, social justice in Canada, non-profit leadership and disability. As a leader, she has filled roles as CEO of Highbanks Society in Calgary, Executive Director of the national Canadian Down Syndrome Society, the Executive Director of a large local service provider (Calgary Alternative Support Services), the Manager of Social Marketing (The Developmental Disabilities Resource Center), and the Director of Employment and Community Development (DDRC). Davidson Flint was a founding member of The Belonging Initiative (nuturingbelonging.ca/belong/), a pan-Canadian initiative, which seeks to eliminate isolation and loneliness in the lives of Canadians who are often marginalized and face systemic barriers to an authentic community life. She has completed the “Think Like a Movement” training retreat through Plan Canada, and has been a student of Francis Wesley's “Getting to Maybe” - JW McConnell Chair of Social Innovation and Resilience. At the Developmental Disabilities Resource Center (DDRC) she was responsible for the creation of the Alberta-based social marketing initiative Everyone Belongs. At the Canadian Down Syndrome Society, she directed the development and launch of the national “Celebrate Being” brand. Similarly, at Highbanks she led the creation, design, and implementation of the therapeutic, clinical model of intervention called “Moving the Fulcrum”. She was recently honored with the Queens Platinum Jubilee Medal for her outstanding contributions to the nonprofit sector in Alberta.