Christina is a Border Green Energy Team MAP Fellow for 2008. She is thrilled to head to Thailand in the fall with friend and classmate Megan Kerins; in the meantime, Christina will research in-field optical alignment methods for solar stirling systems with Sandia National Labs in New Mexico. She is passionate about energy efficiency in the built environment, renewable power generation, sustainable development, and sustainable agriculture. She believes energy is the keystone issue for her generation and sees critical links between global conflict and global health, and energy. Christina considers this Fellowship as the start of a lifelong dedication to designing appropriate energy technologies with communities in the developing world. She is completing a master's degree in mechanical engineering this year, with a focus in heat transfer and energy systems, and she received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Stanford in 2006. Her summer internships with Rumsey Engineers, Inc -- an Oakland-based energy efficient mechanical building system design firm -- introduced her to inspiring players in the building industry and provided valuable experiences on the challenges and successes of green building. Her past research topics include naval submarine waste processes, biocomposites with feather fiber, geothermal heat pump applications, and building energy modeling.