Christine is an honors graduate of the University of Massachusetts and spent part of her college years at the University of Warwick in Coventry England. She has been a single mom to son Benjamin and Abbey since they were 5 and 6. She has spent 22 years in the therapy rooms, IEP’s, and creating individualized interventions for Abbey. She is an avid speaker on autism and overcoming obstacles. She recently spoke at the Northern California Neurodiversity Symposium along with legendary autism advocate Temple Grandin. Her day job is Director of Communications and Senior Programs at the Farrah Fawcett Foundation in Los Angeles, which supports cancer research and patient support.
She appears on Love On the Spectrum US with Abbey and is on TikTok, where she is known as Abbeysmom17, sharing her autism journey with Abbey to over 1 million followers.