Before joining the Library staff, Kristin worked as a project manager at Performant Software Solutions in downtown Charlottesville, where she specialized in steering digital humanities projects through the software development process. Kristin holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia with a concentration in eighteenth-century British literature. She worked for several years at the University of Virginia's Morris Law Library. Among other special projects for the Law Library, she edited The Diary of a Dean: Excerpts From the Private Journal of William Minor Lile. She has also worked at the Library’s former Electronic Text Center and at NINES.