Writer and Filmographer

Parents: James L. Kuhns (1918–2001) and Faith Hallock Colgan (1920–2000). Married: (1) William Norris Hubbard (1941- ); (2) Richard Warren Gerrity (1942–); (3) DeWitt Loomis Alexandre II (1949– ). Children: None recorded. Kinship: Wife of the second cousin of the post–World War II Smith generation.

Early Life and Education: Kristin was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, where her family had deep roots. She attended and graduated from Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Her upbringing in Dayton later inspired her creative work; her graphic novel series, Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl, features Neci Stans, a Dayton gypsy princess whose love for Ezra Crawford, a local aviator and composer, brings her into peril.

Career and Writing: She helped lead New York City’s first Earth Day celebration on April 22, 1970, serving as speaker coordinator for the event. Kristin wrote feature stories for The Christian Science Monitor, Ingenue Magazine, Town & Country, and the New York Daily News, and contributed a weekly column, “The Young Slant,” for the Dayton Journal Herald. Her first professional writing experience came with the Kettering-Oakwood Times, where she chronicled her experiences in France with The Experiment in International Living.

She later worked as a publicist for Ammirati Puris Lintas, the Puerto Rico Economic Development Administration, Rums of Puerto Rico, and Sweet Briar College. She was also editor of the corporate magazines for Champion International, U.S. Plywood, and C.I.T. Financial Corporation. In the early 1970s she appeared as a reporter on an episode of WNET’s The 51st State.

Later Career and Film Work: Kristin served as president of The Kuhns Investment Co. LLC, a small, privately held family investment company in Dayton. She also worked as a producer and writer for several film projects and was a featured writer on The Black List.

Filmography: • 2012 Delivering the Goods – Co-Executive Producer • 2013 Dear Margaret – Associate Producer • 2016 Collected Kingdom – Executive Producer • 2017 Dead Reckoning / Altar Rock – Producer, Writer • 2017 Grey Lady – Associate Producer

Bibliography: • Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl in the Gilded Age • Gem City Gypsy (2013) • Find a Great Guy: Now and Forever (2008) • The Perfect Gentleman: The Secrets Rich Girls Use to Choose the Classiest Guys (2007)

(It may be noted that DeWitt Loomis Alexandre II could consider himself the model for the latter.)