Kristen Starr is an engineering and operations leader with 15+ years building resilient teams and systems at the nexus of technology and social impact. An MIT-trained engineer, she scaled Indeed’s Trust & Safety org from a handful to 50+ roles, led company-wide accessibility strategy, and shaped engineering operations as a senior leader focused on developer wellbeing and measurable business impact. Selected as an Aspen Institute Economic Mobility Fellow, she brings a policy-minded lens to product accessibility and workforce inclusion, treating job platforms as levers for economic opportunity. As founder and executive director of Sunday Lunchbox, she runs a hands-on 501(c)(3) tackling childhood food insecurity while maintaining a strong track record of mentoring engineers and embedding equity into technical roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Kristen Starr - Economic Mobility Fellow at The Aspen Institute