Kristina graduated from Georgetown University in May 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish language. Before joining CGD, she interned on the Engagement Media team at Amnesty International where she strengthened Amnesty's social media presence by introducing Spanish Twitter and Facebook posts. She also helped to build their fundraising and outreach email campaigns and to monitor their web and email data analytics. As a Communications Assistant at CGD, she helped to maintain and post CGD's web content such as blogs and articles, and she oversaw the publication of working papers, policy papers, essays, and briefs. She also ran CGD's @CGDpubs Twitter account and its student outreach program.