Christina Wood

Christina is third generation Mexican American and first in her family to graduate from college. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area she attended public schools and community college before enlisting in the Air Force to pay for college. During her decade in the military as a Serbian linguist, Christina served as an intelligence operator in Maryland and Texas and as a language instructor in California at the Defense Language Institute.

After separating from the Air Force, she redirected her efforts to public education, earning a M.Ed. in Administration and Supervision while working for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools system in Korea and volunteering as Scholarship Director for a local nonprofit. Christina continued working for local organizations in various education-related and leadership roles during her family’s time in Germany, where she also had the opportunity to homeschool their middle school-aged children while their elementary-aged children entered into the German public school system.