Before her political appointment by President Obama, Krepp served in the United States Coast Guard for two years and worked as a United States Congressional staffer for seven years. Krepp left government service in February 2012.
Krepp was a critic of Obama administration maritime and USAID policies after leaving government service.
Krepp is a lawyer specialized in a homeland security, transportation and energy. She is a former Chief Council for U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) which operated under the Department of Transportation, who has also served as a senior counsel to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security.[3] Ms. Krepp began her career as an active duty U.S. Coast Guard officer in 1998.
In 2009, Krepp was appointed by the President to serve as chief counsel at the U.S. Maritime Administration and special counsel to the general counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
In February 2012, Krepp abruptly left her role as chief counsel.[4]
Since her departure from government service, Krepp has increasingly criticized the Obama administration's management of the maritime sector, making negative remarks about USAID's transition to international direct food aid from distribution of through the merchant marine.[6][7] Krepp has also been critical of USAID management.[8][9][10]
In a series of 2013 op-eds, Krepp has claimed Obama administration policies decrease U.S. jobs by debilitating the U.S. merchant marine.[11]
Krepp also criticized her former boss, MARAD administrator David Matsuda, as unqualified to have managed the U.S. Maritime Administration, calling him an "inexperienced outsider" and "a former Senate staffer who did not have a maritime background".[12]
Krepp also attacked 2013 Congressional agriculture-related legislation (i.e. the "Farm Bill"),[13]
In 2014 Krepp was critical of the handling of sexual assaults by both the military as well as at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.[14] She also served as a member of Response Systems to Adult Sexual Assault Crimes Panel, calling the lack of Open hearings the panels recommendations and testimony a "whitewash".[15]