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Christina found her passion for child passenger safety in 2013 when her own daughter turned one and was approaching the weight limit of her infant car seat. Feeling like she didn't know anything about how to keep her own daughter safe in the car, Christina began exploring what seats would be safest for her child and soon fell down the "rabbit hole" of child passenger safety, wanting to learn everything and everything she could.

As a working mom, Christina found it difficult to find a local CPST certification course that would work with her schedule, and so it took several years before she was able to become certified. However, in March of 2017, Christina finally became certified as a CPST in Connecticut, where she lived at the time. She aced all her certification tests, being the only person in her class to do so, prompting her lead instructor from the course to encourage her to consider becoming an instructor, as well. 

In June 2017, Christina jumped on the opportunity to take the Safe Transportation for All Children (a.k.a. the Special Needs Training course), excited to add the skills to her repertoire. 

In August of 2017, Christina moved back to her hometown near Seattle, Washington, and was lucky to get connected with Denise Donaldson and her team. Christina continued to work as a CPST, and in 2019 became certified as an instructor. 

She sought lead instructor certification shortly after also becoming certified to teach the hybrid CPST certification course, passionate about organizing certification courses on weekends, so the course would be more accessible to working individuals. 

Together with this passion for making certification courses more accessible to working folks, Christina has a strong passion for certifying individuals in areas of King County and Washington State that are currently under-served and/or under-resourced. Thus, in 2023 she gathered her CPST friends and colleagues to start Safe Sound Kids Northwest with the goal of making certification courses more accessible to these areas of King County, and hopes to continue to grow the non-profit to also provide low-cost or no-cost resources to low-income and immigrant families within the county. 

She currently works for Public Health Seattle King County as the unintentional injury program manager, primarily applying her passion for child passenger safety and traffic safety to young drivers (25 years and younger) and her skills as a program manager and community organizer. 

She lives in Issaquah with her two children, who are growing up too quickly before her very eyes. 

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