Kay Wakeman is currently the director of insurance outreach for the IIHS and HLDI.

Kay joined HLDI in 2015 as a research analyst where she studied collision avoidance technologies such as pedestrian detection and rear crash prevention. Kay continues to play an active role on HLDI’s research team, but now also spends much of her time speaking at industry conferences and promoting research and resources available to member companies.

Prior to joining the institutes, she worked as a geographic information systems specialist and received a master’s degree in mathematics from Loyola University Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.