Christina is a Doctoral Candidate in Economics at UC Berkeley. Her work focuses on human capital development and labor markets in developing countries. She has conducted fieldwork in Tanzania, Indonesia, Pakistan and India as a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and consultant for the World Bank and Save the Children. Christina has a MALD from the Fletcher School at Tufts, concentrating in development economics, and a BA from UCLA in Physics & Political Science. In a previous life, she was a high school physics teacher. She will join the University of Chicago’s Economics Department as an Assistant Professor in 2023 after spending the 2021-23 academic years as a Saieh Family Research Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute.