Kristin Wintermute has a Bachelor of Science in psychology with a minor in art studio from the University of Montana and a Master’s degree in social work from the University of Maine, Orono. She has done post-graduate coursework in business administration at the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management; web design at Minneapolis College of Art and Design; and accounting certification at North Hennepin Community College. She worked for over seven years as a family therapist in a variety of settings, including private practice, a non-profit clinic for women and a for-profit health maintenance organization.

She is a life-long humanist who attended the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis (FUS) throughout her childhood and teen years. At first, she was enrolled in FUS’s “Humanist Education Program” and in high school became a classroom teacher. As an undergraduate at the University of Montana, she used FUS’s “Humanist Education Program” curriculum at the Unitarian Fellowship of Missoula, Montana to form their first Humanist-oriented Sunday School. In 1998, she was hired by the North American Committee for Humanism (NACH) as Membership Director. In 1999, NACH and its subsidiary, The Humanist Institute, became one organization and she became its part-time business manager. From 2010 to 2017 she was the full-time executive director for THI. As of 2018, THI joined the American Humanist Association in forming a Center for Education and Kristin was made Director of Education. She has served on American Humanist Association, Humanist Society and Unitarian Universalist Humanists Board of Directors.