Christina has more than ten years of experience teaching biology at the college level, in both community college and university settings. She is committed to supporting her students in achieving their academic and career goals, as well as inspiring them to appreciate biology as it relates to their everyday lives.
Christina attended her local community college for one year before transferring to Texas A&M University, where she received her BS degree in Bioenvironmental Sciences. After graduating, she worked as a research microbiologist for Energy Biosystems Corporation, a company that was developing a microbial process to desulfurize petroleum. While in that role, she isolated and characterized a previously unknown bacterial strain capable of degrading a recalcitrant compound. She later earned a MS in Biology at the University of New Mexico, where she worked in a genetics research laboratory investigating regulatory mechanisms of muscle development in the model organism, Drosophila melanogaster. She is a mom to three teenagers and enjoys hiking, traveling, and reading.