Christina is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work where ze received a master’s degree with a concentration in political science in April 2022. Ze is a California native and graduated from California State University San Bernardino with a Bachelor of Arts in Arabic Language, Culture, and Literature in 2018. Christina has been in service for over a decade to diverse communities who experienced the foster care system, juvenile justice system, and houselessness. Christina’s advocacy and passion for system change started with California Youth Connection (CYC), a foster youth-led organization that empowers communities to use policy, legislation, and advocacy to progress system change. Ze had the honor of working on California’s Foster Youth Bill of Rights (AB175) which includes allowing LGBTQIAS+ youth in care to be placed in gender-affirming facilities and have the right to be called by their chosen name and identified pronouns. Christina has numerous notable legislative wins including the Foster Stability Bill (AB244) which prevents children and youth in foster care from experiencing unnecessary or abrupt placement changes as well as the Placement Stability for Probation Supervised Youth in Foster Care (AB1061) bill which amends a section in AB2247 for juvenile justice-involved youth. Christina has also trained thousands of professionals in effective advocacy, used zir art in spoken word and photography to empower and explore complex topics, and has impacted millions through zir social media company, Everything College, which helps bridge the gap between accessibility and higher education by sharing important information on policies and resources with students.