Kristi Gassaway | Operations Director

Kristi was born and raised in Santa Rosa and now makes her home in Windsor with her husband and two daughters — one recent high school graduate and one rising Junior at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. 

As our Operations Director, Kristi manages Generation Housing’s office, human resources, budget and finance, IT, calendar management, and general organizational needs. 

Kristi is a certified bookkeeper and paralegal and brings two decades of operations management experience from engineering and law firms of various sizes.  Her diverse skill set includes managing telecommunications and advanced IT hardware, software, and networking systems, bookkeeping, and legal research, analysis and writing.  

In short, Kristi keeps the trains running on time, and acts as chief problem solver. 

Having personally experienced Sonoma County’s housing challenges, Kristi is excited to dedicate her skills and experience to Gen H.  Kristi’s childhood home burned in the 2017 wildfires and she comes from a large local family who have almost entirely been priced out of the local market. Kristi looks forward to helping ensure that her daughters are able to make their adult homes in Sonoma County.

In her off time, Kristi spends time with family, working on her fitness, and taking advantage of living in wine country.  Kristi is also a big animal lover, and after the 2017 Wildfires, volunteered for many months to help find and rescue cats that were lost in the fires.