Christine is a 2023 J.D. candidate at the U.C. Davis School of Law, where she focuses her studies on constitutional law (particularly First Amendment issues), administrative law, and civil rights law.

Since 2016, she has taught two digital media courses as an instructor in the Online Masters Program for the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

Christine is also a trained journalist in visual, print, and online publications. She has traveled to Eastern Europe, Palestine, Cuba, and Guatemala as a multimedia reporter writing about social challenges and conflict-affected communities. As a freelance journalist, she focused her domestic reporting on local news, and spent two years covering politics, education and crime in the Wards 6, 7 and 8 communities in Washington, D.C. In 2016, she helped cover the presidential campaign through the Los Angeles Times Trail Guide blog.

She also managed the digital strategy for 17 daily and weekly local newspapers in Northern California during her role is digital editor for Northern California Community Newspapers. She spent five years helping the Los Angeles Times newsletter production team launch and grow its editorial newsletters.

Christine received her M.A. in Magazine, Newspaper and Online Journalism in 2015 from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. In 2014, she received her B.A. in Communication and B.M. in Flute Performance at Washington State University. She is also a 2016 Journalism Fellow in the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE).

Awards:

*Journalism Fellow in the 2016 Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE)

*Winner for 2015 AEJMC International Multimedia News Story Contest: video and print story here.

*Winner for 2014 Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Awards, personal opinion on-campus issues: editorial here.

*Finalist for 2014 ACP Story of the Year, feature: story here.

*Winner 2014 SPJ Region 10 Best Daily Newspaper, The Daily Evergreen editor in chief

*Winner 2012 SPJ Region 10, in-depth reporting: story here.