Kristine McDivitt Tompkins is an American environmentalist and the former CEO of Patagonia, one of the most important outdoor clothing brands in the world. After working in business for many years, she quit her job as a business leader to focus on protecting the environment on a large scale. She has worked for years to help create some of the largest national parks in South America, which protect millions of acres of land in Chile and Argentina. She is now a well-known person in the world of environmental protection because she went from being a corporate executive to a conservation leader.
