Lindsay Kubaryk

Lindsay Kubaryk joined Johns Hopkins in 2023 and is now the director of Principal Gifts Strategy at the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine. In her role, Lindsay supports the Fund’s development offices in their pursuit of transformational giving, focusing on eight- and nine- figure opportunities. She also supports the Fund’s efforts to develop a comprehensive principal gift program strategy.  

In 2011, Lindsay’s career brought her to Washington, D.C. After living in several states, she says the D.C. metro is home. “It’s the longest I’ve lived in any one place. I absolutely love it,” she shares. “I moved a lot growing up – from Alabama and Florida to South Carolina, New Hampshire, and then back to South Carolina.” 

Lindsay is currently pursuing a graduate degree in science writing through the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences Advanced Academic Programs. She earned her MBA from The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., and received bachelor’s degrees in political science and historic preservation and community planning from the College of Charleston in South Carolina.  

Below Lindsay shares more about her journey to Hopkins: 

How did you get into the development and alumni relations field?  

As a preservation program assistant at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, I discovered a knack for making the intangible benefits of historic reservation tangible for a somewhat unlikely audience – real estate developers. I went on to hone my fundraising and board development skills further as a board liaison at the World Resources Institute (WRI), an international sustainable development think tank. After WRI, I spent an interesting but exhausting five years in best practice research and management consulting. Now, I’m happy to be in a role where I get to do one of my favorite things in fundraising: making compelling cases for people to support important but complex things, in ways that are meaningful to them.  

What accomplishment are you most proud of?  

I recently became a runner. I’ve always been active but running constantly for more than a mile seemed ridiculous and, frankly, unncessary. Then about a year and half ago, I had major surgery on my arm and wrist and couldn’t do any weight bearing activities for about a year. I started running with friends who were training for a 10-miler. I’m not fast but not terribly slow either.  

What do you like to do when you are not working?  

My husband and I both ride motorcycles, and we love planning trips that take us off the grid on gravel/dirt or winding back roads where we can camp and enjoy nature. I also garden, throw a mean cocktail and dinner party, convene a weekly social club in my neighborhood, and am obsessed with my dog Beaux.  

Tell us something we might not know about Johns Hopkins Medicine. 

Apparently, there are specimens of Dr. William Osler’s brain out in the world. McGill University claims to have one of them. Shoutout to Katie Horsfall, assistant director of Donor Relations at Johns Hopkins Medicine, for investigating this mystery and making me aware of one of my favorite fun facts about the four founding physicians of Johns Hopkins Hospital.