A maker in many mediums, I tell stories with words, audio, and collage

Hey! I’m Christina, an award-winning journalist, editor, executive podcast producer, strategic consultant, and collage artist. Currently, I assist a range of creators in developing podcasts. I’ve held key leadership roles as Executive Producer at Spotify Studios and the Head of Content at The Unbothered Network, an audio home elevating the voices and stories of Black women, in partnership with Spotify. In these roles, I led the creative strategy, development, and execution of Unbothered's slate of podcasts including Jemele Hill is Unbothered. Under my direction, the show won two NAACP Image Awards in 2022.

As the key architect in launching The Unbothered Network, I created and developed Unbothered's first original podcast, Sanctified, and played a significant role in securing The Black Girl Bravado as a Spotify/Unbothered exclusive podcast.

In 2022 and 2023, I served as a Pulitzer Prize juror for audio reporting.

Before transitioning to audio, I was the deputy editor at ZORA, Medium's digital publication by, for, and about Black women, where I led ambitious special projects, developed content strategies, and commissioned and edited stories.

In 2016, I helped launch Bleacher Report’s award-winning multi-platform digital sports and culture magazine, where I led the company’s premium editorial experiences as a deputy editor before rising to managing editor. I also pushed for and assisted Bleacher Report in increasing its coverage of female athletes. Folio named me one of its distinguished Top Women in Media and honored me as a “Change-Maker” in 2018.

Prior to landing at Bleacher Report, I conceptualized, wrote, and edited stories for Sports Illustrated Kids. I started my media career at People magazine, where I reported, wrote, and fact-checked celebrity and human interest stories. My work has been featured in print and on the digital platforms of Essence, Seventeen, InStyle, ESPN The Magazine, Jet and Black Enterprise.

As an artist, I construct hand-cut collages, primarily centering Black women and girls, to reflect the beauty and complexity of becoming and belonging. You can learn more about my art here.

As a founding board member of Achievers Early College Prep, a STEAM-focused public charter school in Trenton, New Jersey, I helped open the school in 2018 with a goal of fostering a more diverse and inclusive pipeline to careers in technology, digital arts, and entrepreneurship.

An adventurer at heart, I am a two-time marathoner whose comforts include tea, travel, Sade on vinyl, Penny Hardaway highlights, libraries, and bougainvillea sightings. I’m based in New York City.