[2] She is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies,[3] where she runs a program on conflict and humanitarian crisis.
[6] White represented the U.S. Government at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) during the second term of the Clinton Administration, from 1997 to 2001.
[7][8] She was appointed as senior advisor on humanitarian issues to Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke in the State Department's Office of the Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
White is now a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.[10] White serves on the boards of a number of organizations, including the National Democratic Institute (NDI),[11] the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC),[8] Refugees International, The Center for Global Development, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Women's Foreign Policy Group.
"[17] Serving on a jury in 2011, hearing a grand larceny case brought by actor Robert De Niro against an art gallery director, White was reported by another juror to have threatened to walk out during deliberations on the grounds that she had important work to do, stating that "20 million people are in trouble in Afghanistan because she was here.
"[18] In October 2008, White was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after she stopped at a toll booth and failed to proceed when the gate was up.