Krista Nightengale is the Executive Director of the Better Block. She began her career at D Magazine, the city magazine in Dallas, where she served as Managing Editor, Executive Director of a leadership group aimed at empowering citizens to take action, and Executive Director of a literacy nonprofit that united the city in reading together. She then served as Chief of Staff of the Coalition for a New Dallas, an advocacy group that worked to reunite communities by removing an elevated highway between two neighborhoods in Dallas. Krista then launched Dallas Innovates, a news site that promotes Dallas–Fort Worth as a hub of innovation. While covering the city, Krista became intrigued by the built environment.
In 2016, she joined the Better Block, an international, urban design nonprofit that educates, equips, and empowers communities and their leaders to reshape and reactivate built environments to promote the growth of healthy and vibrant neighborhoods.

At the Better Block, Krista works to help with its growth, spread its story, and make the world a little better by working with communities to demonstrate how wonderful walkable/bikeable districts are through the use of digital fabrication and great design.

Krista is a board member of Philanthropy Kids, on the Comprehensive Land Use Planning committee, steering committee of Big D Reads, past-president of the Dallas Architecture and Design Exchange board, former AIA Dallas Board Member, former member of the Dallas Commission on Homelessness, and a graduate of Leadership Texas.