In both high school and college Christina noticed a lack in performance opportunities for students, and thus created two new productions. As Vice President of the International Thespian Honor Society, alongside her President, she started "Cabaret Night." This gave students an opportunity to perform short scenes, write works to be performed, and showcase talents no other school production allowed them to in the past. At Hofstra University, Christina founded and directed the first Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadow Cast, which performed yearly. Christina firmly believes in creating new opportunities or finding collaborators to help in creating opportunities for students. 

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In the fall semester of 2017, Christina was awarded the Dr. Swiney Scholarship by the honors fraternity Alpha Psi Omega, which she would be extended a bid to join the following year. The scholarship was for the most outstanding production major of the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes of Hofstra's Drama Department. 

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Christina also received a large academic scholarship all four years of college for maintaining a G.P.A over 3.2. She was on the Dean's List all terms, the Provost's List her last semester, and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a cumulative G.P.A of 3.85. 

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The summer of 2018 Christina interned for Boomerang Theatre Company as an assistant director for their production of Twelfth Night featured in Central Park. She assisted the director in giving notes, doing dramaturgical research, filling in for missing actors, and running lines. Do to an unfortunate circumstance, the wardrobe intern had to resign and so Christina took over those responsibilities on top of her own. This included transporting, maintaining, mending, and cleaning costumes, as well as assisting actors with quick changes and avoiding overheating.