Christina grew up across the US, and so has trouble answering the question, “Where are you from?” This transient upbringing lead to a love for exploring new cultures and landscapes. In fact, her first introduction to rangelands came during college while learning from yak-herding nomads in Tibet, where she gained an appreciation for the reciprocal relationship between people, animals, and grasslands.Since then, she has worked across a variety of agricultural and nonprofit settings, including a vegetable farm for refugees in Virginia and an educational ranch in Colorado. She also worked in Nepal as a Peace Corps Volunteer supporting food security initiatives, as well as in Thailand teaching sustainable resource management through experiential education.Christina holds a Master of Science in Geography from the University of Montana, where her research focused on agroecological resilience on working landscapes. She is currently one of the New Agrarian Program Managers at Quivira Coalition, with a regional focus on Colorado and Wyoming. Based in the Colorado’s Front Range, she enjoys balancing time in the outdoors and creative projects at home.