Kerstin Carr is the Chief Regional Strategy Officer and Senior Director of Planning at MORPC. Her team provides and promotes collaboration, technical assistance, and regional planning initiatives related to active transportation, the natural and built environment, transportation safety, and energy to benefit MORPC members and communities in Central Ohio.

Carr has nearly 20 years of experience in transportation and urban planning. She currently chairs the Scenario Planning Consortium of the National Association of Regional Councils, serves on the Neighborhood Design Center board, and is an advisory member to the OSU Center for Real Estate and of the Early Childhood Advisory Council. Carr is a 2019 graduate of Leadership Columbus, was part of the 2020 Future 50 class, and has a doctoral degree in geography from the University of Regensburg, Germany.