Kit Nichols

Kit Nichols

Kit Nichols is Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at Ariadne Labs.  As a member of  Ariadne’s Management team, Kit is responsible for identifying and launching opportunities for collaboration and partnership to further the development and spread of our ideas, tools, and solutions for maximum impact.

Kit joined the Lab in 2014, and over the years  has served in a variety of roles within the Lab, including Chief Talent Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. Prior to Ariadne, Kit was Executive Director of Lifebox Foundation USA, a nonprofit and sister organization to Ariadne Labs dedicated to improving the safety of surgery in LMICs. She started working in global health after a decade at Auerbach Associates, a boutique executive search firm founded to provide search services to colleges, universities, and related cultural institutions and nonprofits. As Vice President at Auerbach, she led both academic and administrative searches and worked closely with the firm’s President to develop Auerbach’s practice in Asia. Her career also includes several years in public policy research at the Pioneer Institute, a Massachusetts-based think tank, where she worked on the Institute’s education reform initiatives.

A graduate of Phillips Academy and Middlebury College, Kit also holds a Master’s degree in International Relations with a concentration in Development Economics and International Business from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.