Christina is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at the University of Rochester, where she studies sensory processing in autism, and its impact on mental health, to inform sensory-based supports and improve quality of life for autistic people. She received her B.S. in Theatre from Northwestern University and her M.A. in Psychology in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to graduate school, Christina received a grant from the Autism Science Foundation to investigate auditory processing in autism using EEG methods, and worked at the Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, coordinating several research projects focused on characterizing the sensory phenotypes and genotype-phenotype correlations in single gene causes of autism. She is passionate about the inclusion of all autistic people in research and adapting research and intervention frameworks to better serve non-speaking and minimally speaking autistic people. Outside of the lab, she enjoys thrifting, watching reality tv, and taking pictures of her dog.