Christina lives in the United Arab Emirates with her husband and three children.
They moved to Sharjah, near Dubai, when Christina was hired as English Faculty by the Higher Colleges of Technology in August 2008.
Christina worked as an American Accent trainer for Brady Language Services and for the University of Colorado at Boulder for 9 years, before taking her post in the UAE. Her degrees are from Georgetown and Purdue, and she was born and raised in Illinois.