Christina is enthusiastic about the number three. She speaks three languages, has lived on three continents, and has received the Carnegie Mellon University Andy Award and CIT Staff Award three separate times. She holds degrees in Liberal Arts and Culinary Arts. With the help of CMU staff, she wrote a cookbook to benefit pancreatic cancer research. Prior to moving to Pittsburgh and joining CMU in 1999, she worked for a Washington D.C. area accounting firm and the federal government.