I'm Christina.

You may know me as part of the Union Square Ventures team in New York City.

I enjoy design, read books, play kickball, and can't turn down a good trip. I made Hoppin' ... or not for foursquare's September 2011 hackathon. If you're ever in the market for Ohio State cookie cutters, I made a few you can buy on Shapeways.

I've lived in Columbus, Ohio, California's Bay Area (PA and SF), Berlin, and NYC. I've spent extendedish not-vacation time in Kigali, Rwanda, Kampala, Uganda, and Bangkok, Thailand; I've spent vacation time in other places.

When I was at Stanford, I wrote a very long paper that looked at the ways children in northwesten Tanzanian households spent their time. I also prototyped a human-powered pelletizer designed to turn biomass into fuel for smallholder farmers. While in Berlin, we mapped out "a new etiquette for the digital age" (English, Deutsch), and I wrote a short book that summarized over a year of observational design research. It was all very fun.

About a year ago, I tried to crowdsource book and travel recommendations for a trip to China, Indonesia, and the Philippines; it worked out alright.

I spend a ton of time walking around New York City (which is actually pretty great) and listening to podcasts. Some of my favorites are from Chicago Public Radio, The Economist, Deutsche Welle (1, 2 and 3), NPR, Radio France Internationale (1 and 2), and Stanford ETL, and WHYY. If you think I'm missing something fantastic, please do let me know.

I blog a bit — life would be better if I blogged more often — and I'm working on a few other projects.