Christine is a Ph.D student graduating with a Communications degree. Christine has a reputation of academic excellence that she maintains while operating as a research collaborator, research assistant, teaching assistant, and as the president of the Communication Graduate Student Association. She focuses on risk perceptions and climate change, but Christine possess additional expertise in areas of health communication, science communication, environmental communication, and crisis communication. The nominator stated that “Christine is a truly exceptional graduate student.”

Christine is a highly accomplished scholar, having fifteen referred journal articles published or in press. She has also written a thesis titled “Extending the climate change risk perception model in the United States: First-person and third-person effects.” She has also assisted as a collaborator on a research project investigating women’s engagement with science media. In addition, Christine worked alongside science journalists, video producers, other researchers from other universities on this National Science Foundation sponsored project titled “Cracking the Code: Influencing Millennial Science Engagement”. She has also co-presented these findings to other influential science practitioners from science media organizations such as the NPR’s science desk, NOVA, PBS Nature, and many more science outreach practitioners and scholars.

In the fall, when she is not spending time with her husband and three lovely cats, she will be working at Stony Brook University as an assistant professor of climate change communication.