Kristy Bernard Tsadick

Kristy Bernard Tsadick is General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She is responsible for managing the foundation’s legal needs, as well as supporting the board on corporate governance matters. She also serves as legal partner for the Environment Program, the foundation president’s office and Special Projects portfolio, human resources, and investments.

Previously, Kristy served as Interim General Counsel for nine months, and Deputy General Counsel and Associate General Counsel for a combined total of 10 years. Prior to joining the foundation, Kristy worked at the Council on Foundations and in private practice at Caplin & Drysdale in the Washington, D.C., area, where she focused on exempt organizations and political law regulatory and compliance matters. Before becoming an attorney, Kristy was a paralegal at Covington & Burling and a senior legal analyst supporting the government affairs department at a multinational Fortune 15 corporation.

Kristy is originally from New York. She has a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was staff for the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. She is a member of the Bar in Maryland and Washington, D.C. (inactive), and is registered as in-house counsel for the Hewlett Foundation in California. Kristy has co-authored several online legal training courses available at www.learnfoundationlaw.org and is a regular speaker at philanthropic and legal conferences.