Omega 2024 Video Diaries
Meet the Leadership
Kristen K. White, PhD
Omega Director
Dr. Kristen K. White is the chair and associate professor of international and intercultural studies at Belhaven University, where she teaches courses on intercultural communication and world religions. She graduated from Claremont Graduate University with a PhD in Higher Education in 2016. Her dissertation research was titled International Service-Learning: Faculty Engagement and Transformation. Previously, she served as the Director of Mobilization at California Baptist University (2005-2015), where she mobilized and trained more than 400 students, staff, and faculty annually to participate in International Service Projects and also served as a trustee for the International Mission Board from 2011-2016. Although currently residing in Jackson, Mississippi, she is an Oklahoman at heart. She has traveled to 56 countries since serving as a Journeyman with the International Mission Board for two years in Central Asia. Upon returning to the States in 2000, she relocated to San Francisco, where she completed two master’s degrees in Theological Studies and Intercultural Studies. She has volunteered as a coordinator, facilitator, and instructor of the Perspectives course, the president for UEGE (University Educators for Global Engagement), and an advocate for Alzheimer’s and Breast Cancer. As a Colonial Heights Baptist Church member, she serves on the College Ministry Team and the Woman’s Advisory Council. Kristen’s ministry calling is to train and equip God’s people for acts of good service worldwide.