Dr. Kristen Priddy serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Professional Identity in Nursing (ISPIN).

She has been actively involved in discovering and disseminating knowledge about professional identity in nursing since the first think tank gathered in 2018 to define professional identity in nursing and its domains. She worked for many years as a labor and delivery nurse and has 25 years of experience teaching undergraduate nursing students. She has made multiple nursing-related trips to Haiti and Sub-Saharan Africa and is passionate about elevating the nursing profession in low- and middle-income countries. She works as a nurse educator for ATI and a substitute school nurse in North Texas. Dr. Priddy's mission is to understand, touch, and improve the nursing profession in the U.S. and worldwide.