Christine attended Gettysburg College and the University of Rhode Island for undergraduate education, majoring in English and minoring in Spanish. She taught abroad in Mexico, on Long Island for Adelphi University's ELS Language Centers, and in Brooklyn at Kingsborough Community College before joining the DOE as a TESOL Teaching Fellow in 2012. She worked in a Bronx elementary school for two years before switching to the high school level in 2014. Christine is affiliated with the National Language Service Corps and volunteers as an ESL teacher through Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. She is looking forward to her second year at AFSE. Meredith Towne