[1] She is best known for co-creating and executive producing the CBC Television comedy-drama series Pretty Hard Cases,[2] and for writing the 2016 film Maudie.

White has also written and produced for Orphan Black, Burden of Truth, and Saving Hope, and consulted on many other shows.

In the mid 2000s, she was cast in the ensemble mockumentary series Hatching, Matching and Dispatching alongside Mary Walsh, Mark McKinney, Susan Kent, Rick Boland, Jonny Harris, and Joel Thomas Hynes.

In 2018, White's script for the feature film Maudie, starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, won her the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay.

[7] Together with Tassie Cameron, White co-created the action-packed female buddy cop series Pretty Hard Cases, which premiered on CBC Television in February 2021.