Christina received her B.A. and M.A. in Communicative Disorders from the California State University Long Beach, and completed a predoctoral fellowship at the Mt. Home VAMC in Johnson City, TN. She received her Ph.D. in Communicative Disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. Christina worked as a Research Audiologist at the VA Outpatient Clinic in Martinez, CA, where she coordinated amplification research. She joined The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor in 2004, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. Christina teaches courses in introductory audiology, audiologic assessment, and audiologic rehabilitation. Christina is the director of the Speech Recognition and Aging Laboratory and studies age-related deficits in binaural speech processing and the effects of traumatic brain injury on auditory processing.
At the Department level, Christina has served as the Chair of the Audiology Oversight Subcommittee, and currently serves as the Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee and the Ph.D. Program Coordinator. Outside the university, she has served as Past-President of the Ohio Academy of Audiology, Chair of the Education Committee for the American Academy of Audiology, and is currently an Editor for the American Journal of Audiology. Christina received ASHA Fellow in 2022.
In 2014, Christina spent a 3-month sabbatical at the National Acoustic Laboratories in Sydney, Australia.