Christina is an owner of Millennia but not currently an active consultant.  In 2009, she moved with her family to Colombia, where she is now working full time for one of our clients, Cimarron Capital Partners, to expand their work throughout Latin America.

Christina joined Millennia in 2001 bringing over ten years of experience in the international development community.  Prior to Millennia, she worked with local grassroots organizations, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank on a wide range of community economic development projects. Her areas of expertise include policy research and analysis, program design, strategic planning, evaluation, and facilitation.

Her work is currently focused on venture capital and private equity, working to channel capital to growing companies in Latin America.  During her tenure at Millennia. Christina worked with both U.S. and international clients. She has designed and evaluated projects implemented by local NGOs with funding from foundations, governments, or multilateral agencies. She supports organizations in strategic planning, conducts organizational assessments, undertakes policy research, and facilitates community input through focus groups and workshops. Her work focuses on economic development - particularly as it relates to labor market policies, job creation, and enhancing investment in small businesses.  She also works with education, immigrant services, and a range of community development organizations.

Christina is actively involved in scholarly writing with a practitioner-researcher focus. In her book, Reducing Poverty, Building Peace (Kumarian Press, 2005) with co-author Coralie Bryant of Columbia University, Christina argues that poverty reduction is key to achieving peace in the world. She also contributed to the book Going Global (Kumarian Press, 2001), which addresses the challenges facing large international non-profit organizations. Her contribution included authoring a chapter on the evolving role of advocacy among international development NGOs.

Christina holds both a Masters of Business Administration and a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University. Her B.A. in Government is from Dartmouth College. Fluent in Spanish, Christina has worked primarily in Latin America but has also done project work in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Africa and the Caribbean.