Christina is a Mexican American first-generation college student who graduated with her BS in Agriculture in Horticulture from New Mexico State University. She is passionate about bringing controlled environment agriculture into inner city public schools to teach younger generations about the importance of sustainable ag, hoping to push them into careers in science. As a research intern in NIH funded programs like the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement and Maximizing Access to Research Careers, she assisted in water conservation studies that evaluated the drought and salinity tolerance of different landscape ornamental crops, learned about the advantages of growing leafy greens in hydroponic systems, assisted in studies that evaluated the effect of UV lighting on basil in vertical farms and worked on studies with local growers evaluating pomegranate as a potential crop at Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at El Paso. At NMSU she worked on identifying abiotic and biotic stressors of hemp crop in southern New Mexico. In fall 2021 Christina moved to pursue her MS in Applied Plant Science at the University of Minnesota where she will be evaluating different cultural control methods of the invasive pest swede midge, on brassica crops. In her free time, Christina is exploring Minnesota’s beautiful outdoors and enjoys checking out bands in the local music scene, playing guitar (poorly), and spending time with her husband and their dogs and cats.
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