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Kristin Flickinger

Nonprofit leader, consultant and Survivor 51 contestant.

Biography

Kristin Flickinger is a nonprofit leader and consultant who became a Survivor 51 contestant in 2026.

Kristin Flickinger’s background spans advocacy, community programs, fundraising and organizational leadership. She has worked with the Los Angeles LGBT Center and Pacific Pride Foundation and founded a consulting business. Her arrival on Survivor 51 followed an application journey that, in her account, began during the show’s first season.

Known for

Contestant

Survivor 51

Kristin Flickinger competed on Survivor 51 in 2026.[2]

Career highlights

  1. Career 1

    Leadership and consulting

    Her career has included leadership at the Los Angeles LGBT Center and Pacific Pride Foundation, along with the creation of her own consulting business. She entered the show after applying over a period that stretched back to its earliest years.[1][3][4]

  2. Career 2

    Early advocacy and organizing

    Flickinger began working in advocacy as an intern at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in the 1990s. She later managed a field office during the marriage-equality campaigns of the 2000s. Her professional biography places that organizing work at the start of a longer career in community services and nonprofit management.[4]

  3. Career 3

    Community services and fundraising

    At the Los Angeles LGBT Center, Flickinger served as director of programs, overseeing services for several age groups and communities. She also led AIDS/LifeCycle, helping raise more than $20 million for HIV services and care. As executive director of Pacific Pride Foundation, she worked through the pandemic and helped bring back the Pacific Pride Festival through partnerships with more than forty community organizations.[4]

  4. Career 4

    Flickinger Consulting

    Flickinger is the founder of Flickinger Consulting, which works on executive support, organizational transitions and leadership coaching. Her professional profile also lists long-distance cycling among her interests outside work.[4]

  5. Career 5

    A longstanding ambition to play Survivor

    In a September 2026 interview with Them, republished by The Advocate, Flickinger said she had first applied to Survivor while its original season was still airing. She described the first day of filming in Fiji as a moment that connected her own experience with scenes she remembered from the show’s history. After years of submissions, she said actually taking part matched the scale of the adventure she had imagined. The interview made clear that her interest in the competition had continued alongside, rather than replaced, her working life.[3]