Kristen Shea is Senior Programs Analyst for Member Services and Public Affairs with AAMVA where she leads working groups on projects related to CDL Driver History Record best practices and Emergency Resilience and Response preparedness for SDLAs. Prior to joining AAMVA, she served as Special Assistant to Board Member Earl F. Weener at the NTSB for four years working on multi-modal crashes. Before coming to the NTSB Kristen worked as a Senior Attorney for the National District Attorneys Association’s National Traffic Law Center for six years in a position grant funded by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Kristen also spent time at the Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office as a program manager and served for almost 10 years as a prosecuting attorney, including time in Nashville as the head of the Vehicular Crimes Unit.

Kristen earned her law degree from the University of Memphis and her undergraduate degree at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX.  Kristen completed a Master of Public Administration and Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security and Emergency Management in the fall of 2019 at George Mason University where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy.