As the first Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Austin, Texas, Kerry helped teams identify and test solutions to complex challenges. Her teams focused on homelessness, displacement due to gentrification, racial profiling, re-imagining public safety, achieving zero waste, and application of emerging technologies, such as an MVP distributed ledger platform for people experiencing homelessness to store their identity documents.

As a former diplomat with the U.S. Department of State, she established an innovation unit in the Office of the Secretary of State, developed and managed an employee idea generation program, helped architect sustainable management reforms, coordinated logistics for the Pittsburgh G20 Summit, served as an executive staffer, and improved programs and operations at two U.S. Embassies.