Krista Laine
2025 - Present
2029
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Krista Laine is a member of the Austin City Council in Texas, representing District 6. She assumed office on January 6, 2025. Her current term ends on January 6, 2029.
Laine ran for election to the Austin City Council to represent District 6 in Texas. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Laine completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Krista Laine earned a degree from Columbia University.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: City elections in Austin, Texas (2024)
General election
General election for Austin City Council District 6
Krista Laine defeated incumbent Mackenzie Kelly in the general election for Austin City Council District 6 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Krista Laine (Nonpartisan)  | 51.3 | 14,008 |
 | Mackenzie Kelly (Nonpartisan) | 48.7 | 13,283 | |
| Total votes: 27,291 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Krista Laine completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Laine's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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In 2021, extremist Moms For Liberty, Christian Nationalists, and well-funded outside interests attempted to take over the Round Rock ISD school board. Krista co-founded and led Access Education RRISD, a PAC that endorsed and campaigned for 5 RRISD school board candidates, sweeping these races in a landslide despite being outspent by wide margins.
A professional real estate appraiser for a decade, Laine initially appraised real estate impacted by road, utility, and public works projects before specializing in the Austin housing market for CBRE. Her professional experience also includes working as a Development Associate for a large non-profit in the Boston area and entry-level positions at both large and small companies. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in NYC and studied French at La Sorbonne in Paris, France.- District 6 and other parts of Austin can’t wait any longer for access to efficient, reliable city services. My professional, community leadership, and lived experience in numerous cities has prepared me to deliver results (not more rhetoric) on housing, transportation, 911 response times for critical emergencies, reliable utilities service, improved response to extreme weather, and faster, more effective response to mental health and homeless concerns.
- With the skyrocketing population and cost-of-living in Austin, we must focus first on improving reliability, access, and efficiency of our basic city services. Streamlining and increasing efficiency of services after so much growth is critical to improving quality of life, making the city affordable for a broader range of residents, and maximizing the value of tax dollars so that we have fewer property tax increases.
- I want to use my professional experience to be a force for more effective city services while continuing my track record of community leadership, standing up for civil rights, and bringing us together rather than dividing us.
I have 10 years professional experience analyzing Austin housing, transportation & utilities projects, plus a track record as an effective D6 community leader & problem solver. My experience has prepared me to deliver results on streamlining housing regulations & increasing efficiency in development/ permitting departments, while increasing stability in our neighborhoods.
My decade of professional experience analyzing the Austin housing market (as well as transportation and utilities projects) has prepared me to be effective on these issues. My recent experience in advocacy and community organizing in D6 – including founding and leading Access Education RRISD – has shown me firsthand the many gaps in city services around District 6. I also have decades of experience working in and advocating for positive change in large organizations. These experiences have prepared me to hit the ground running so that I can deliver results not rhetoric for Austin and District 6.
State Representatives John Bucy III, James Talarico, Vikki Goodwin, & Sheryl Cole;
State Senator Sarah Eckhardt;
RRISD Trustees Chuy Zárate, Amber Landrum, Alicia Markum, Amy Weir, & Tiffanie Harrison;
Cedar Park Mayor Jim Penniman-Morin;
ACC Vice Chair Sean Hassan;
Travis Co. Constable George Morales;
Alice Yi;
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Austin City Council District 6 |
Officeholder Austin City Council District 6 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 8, 2024
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| Preceded by Mackenzie Kelly |
Austin City Council District 6 2025-Present |
Succeeded by - |
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