Kristin White is a dynamic change-agent transforming transportation for the future. As Google Public Sector’s Transportation Industry Executive and Head of Transportation Strategy and Partnerships she’s helping the world’s 4th largest company, with 170,000 employees we leverage its resources, technology and innovation to invest in the public good.
She’s helping to lead a new arm Google and Alphabet created to use tech and innovation to support transportation goals including saving lives, building resilient communities, connecting communities and to keep America moving.
Kristin’s leadership philosophy focuses on servant leadership, focusing on people, humility, kindness, innovation, inclusion, authenticity, human centered design, plain language and meaningful engagement to advance performance-based outcomes.
Her accomplishments include being the youngest woman to serve as acting administrator of the FHWA, the nation’s largest surface transportation agency overseeing nearly $300B in investment with 3,000 employees across 52 states and terrifies. She led the nonprofit ITS America dedicated to transformation transportation to technology and launched one of the country’s first state-run innovation programs at the Minnesota Department of Transportation as Innovation Director. She started her career as a US Department of State Fulbright Fellow in Japan and practiced law before entering the public sector. She’s responsible for launching the country’s first V2X plan and getting the federal government to develop a national strategy to advance digital infrastructure.
She’s won awards including the Women in Transportation Innovation Award, Secretary’s and Administrator’s awards from USDOT, but the most rewarding to her is putting people first and being an extraordinarily empathetic leader.
She has a J.D. from Hamline University School of Law, a Certificate in Global Arbitration from Queen Mary University of Law, and a B.A. from St. Olaf College.
A dynamic and energetic change agent some describe as human sunshine, her goals are to move fast, break things and do good while working with brilliant teams, promoting people, lifelong learning and always being kind to advance our transportation goals of safety, resiliency, and connecting communities.
She’s originally from the Black Hills of South Dakota. In her down time, she mentors woman and runs a nonprofit to advance women in transportation, and runs, practices yoga, and hikes around her Bay Area home, with her West Highland Terrier, Teddy.
