Kristina Miner

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Age: 30

Title: Treaty Underwriter

Company: Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co.

Location: Hartford

Hometown: Newington

College: Trinity College

Bio

Kristina Miner is employed as a treaty underwriter but has also pursued a passion for community involvement. After initiating and organizing community involvement opportunities as a way to promote cross-division networking, in 2014 Miner accepted a voluntary secondary appointment as Hartford Steam Boiler's corporate charitable contributions contact.

As treaty underwriter, Miner's responsibilities include portfolio monitoring, pricing and underwriting actions for 47 companies across different products.

Companies vary in complexity, with premiums ranging from $30,000 to $10.5 million per client. Miner's role is to manage profitability for each company.

As charitable contributions contact, Miner manages the process of requests from nonprofit organizations looking for support from HSB. Responsibilities include researching, assessing relevancy, vetting for approvals and processing benefits.

Miner focuses on road racing and volunteerism.

She competes with Manchester Running Co. and is a member of Team HMF. Miner won the Greatest Community Impact Award for individual volunteerism within the Hartford Young Professionals & Entreprenuers Cup program four consecutive years.

Q&A

Who gave you your best career advice? My father said 'Keep your head down, do your job to the best of your ability and be patient. The people who need to know the extra contributions you make already know, other opinions do not matter — stay focused, this is a marathon not a sprint.'

Which destination has most shaped who you are in business and life today? The track. Years were spent developing myself on the track, from physical to mental, being part of a team while holding myself responsible for individual performance. My collegiate junior year, I was in a pedestrian vs. car accident that left me with both legs broken and a traumatic brain injury. With the compassionate guidance of doctors, and encouragement of coaches, family and even competitors, I pushed to get back on track literally, with a focus on making it back to the collegiate national level. I failed this outcome but learned much greater life lessons pertaining to the appreciation of community and the positive impact one can make even when things do not go as planned. In 2006, I was awarded the Bob Casey Courage Award from the Connecticut Sportswriters Alliance — awarded for perseverance in the face of adversity.

If society got together 100 years from now to build a statue of you, what would the plaque say? 'One comment, one event, one person can make a world of difference to another.'