Organizational Leadership

Since the 1990s, Christina has consistently been involved in association work of some kind. She deeply enjoys the metacognitive work that organizational leadership requires of her, finding that it counterbalances the day-to-day need to check things off the perpetual to-do list that makes it easy to lose sight of the values and value driven goals that underpin the minutiae of work.

As a Black woman, Christina is among the historically underrepresented in librarianship. Although she’s led a relatively privileged life, she’s never been allowed the luxury of forgetting that she is Black and that this life is Promethean fire. From a young age, she was raised with an awareness that the life she enjoyed was hard-won, secured by generations of conscious decisions to undermine institutional inequity, and it could only be retained and furthered by vigilance. She was groomed to be an exemplar, persuading the powers that be not to bar her way to success and instead grant her the same opportunities expected by her non-Black peers. Thus, she is passionate about empowering and mentoring others whose individual struggles—whatever they be rooted in—make them vulnerable to being targeted for discrimination. For Christina, being an organizational leader provides more than mere professional development; it facilitates access to influencers, portals to increasing equity.

To that end, Christina is a passionate leader who leverages this work to seek out opportunities to support historically underserved populations in her community. She is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated—past Southern Region officer, past President of the Austin graduate chapter, and past President of the undergraduate chapter at the University of Texas at Austin—prior member of the Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE) and officer in the Round Rock Unit, Co-founder and steering committee member of the Central Texas Teen & Kids Comic Con, past President of the Board of Directors for Girls Rock Austin, and the Vice President of Social Media for Reading With Pictures. As a member of the Texas library ecosystem, she’s been active in the work and leadership of the Texas Library Association's Young Adult Round Table (YART) for nearly the past decade as YART's 2022-2025 Chair, the Social Media Manager, and both a member and Chair of the Texas Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Committee.

In short, she is committed to moving the needle of culture change wherever she can.