[1] In 2020, Kinkead was elected to represent District 20, which encompasses several communities in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.

In 2016, she earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

[1] Kinkead is a private-practice lawyer from the Brighton Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

Previously, Kinkead has worked in Washington D.C. for Common Cause on government ethics reform, for the National Institutes of Health[3] and as a Judicial Law Clerk for Allegheny County Commonwealth Court Judge, Michael Wojcik.

[2] In 2019, Kinkead and Emily Marburger, mayor of Bellevue, Pennsylvania, entered the Democratic primary against Adam Ravenstahl, the incumbent in their district.