Meet Our Team

Christina is the co-founder and Executive Director of Pubic Wise. She is an organizing, voting rights and democracy access expert who brings over two decades of experience in electoral and legislative campaigns, advocacy, government, and non-profit management to the organization. Christina has been featured frequently in outlets such as the Guardian, BBC News, CNN, and NBC News.

A social worker by trade who started her career in the labor and immigrants’ rights movements, Christina views social change work through the lens of the direct impact and accessibility of enacted policies on communities. 

Christina, the proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, first developed a passion for making voting accessible to marginalized communities as Director of Civic Engagement at the New York Immigration Coalition where she ran one of the largest voter registration programs for newly naturalized immigrants in the country and led a statewide immigrant voter table. Following her time at NYIC, Christina served in the political departments of two major labor unions, RWDSU where she was Deputy Political Director and 32BJ SEIU, where she was the State Legislative Coordinator. She also founded a worker empowerment organization called Vive El Sueno based in Nosara, Costa Rica that is approaching its 10th anniversary. Directly prior to coming on to Public Wise, she was the Assistant Comptroller for Community Affairs at the NYS Comptroller’s office.

Christina has run campaigns and independent expenditures at the city, state, and federal levels. Most notably, she was the NYS Organizing Director for Hillary for America in 2016 where she ran a program that generated voter contacts in all 50 states. 

Christina was born and raised in New York and currently lives in the Washington, DC area with her two daughters, husband, and rescue dog.