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Lily Kirchner is a Volunteer Advocacy Ambassador at Autism Speaks and Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Autism Speaks and is based in Wisconsin Area, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She has worked as Administrative Aide at QPS. Lily attended University of Wisconsin-Superior between 2008 and 2013.

Nonprofit executive working at the intersection of business and community to bring people and resources together to solve sticky problems and drive large-scale social impact. Founding National Director and architect of The Posse Foundation Career Program. • Leadership: Record of designing, leading and scaling highly effective national and local organizations. • Strategic Partnerships: Consistently creates leading edge models for strategic collaborations between industry and local communities with impact at national and city levels. • Workforce Diversity: 15 years experience working with industry-leading companies and their executives to develop a more diverse workforce through pipeline, culture and policy shifts. • Corporate Philanthropy: 15 years experience partnering with Fortune 500 companies on business, brand, employee, and culture aligned philanthropic impact. Specialties: Capacity building to scale impact, growing organizations from local to national, cultivating strong ambitious teams, strategic organizational development, high-level fundraising, cross-sector partnerships, board development, pro-bono volunteerism, service enterprise, employee engagement, diversity cultivation and retention strategies, and speaking on behalf of company and cause.

I am the Chief Executive Officer of the Surfrider Foundation and lead the world’s largest grassroots network dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s ocean, waves and beaches, through approaches that integrate coastal recreation with conservation. We are dynamic and committed team that defends the coast against damaging projects, promotes ongoing coastal stewardship programs, advances protective ocean and coastal policies at all levels of government, while cultivating and developing community activists and leaders. I also helped to establish the field of “Surfonomics,” which applies natural resource economic approaches to value surfing.