Cristina has recently joined the Knock on Wood team and brings with her a diverse background including the development of an International Centre for Watershed Management, and recent participation in international projects as a facilitator, project manager, grant writer and researcher.

She has been instrumental in securing funding and support from the public and private sectors for environmental and cultural projects and has been worked on projects in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Honduras and Costa Rica.

More recently Cristina has worked as the Account Director for Guerilla Magazine, an Ottawa-based arts magazine and website reporting on Ottawa culture "at ground level". She has also been involved in every stage of the planning and execution of GuerillaLIVE, the innovative launch events that are held quarterly to correspond with the release of each issue.

At Knock on Wood, Cristina has applied her project management and publicity expertise to diverse clients including: MPI-Ottawa, Ottawa Dragonboat Race Festival and HOPE Volleyball SummerFest.