About Christina Mitchell

Dr. Christina E. Mitchell is a nonprofit and public sector researcher and professional impassioned about issues of access, diversity, and inclusion. In her ardent quest to hear the unheard in our conversations, she has worked with South African communities of refugees and migrants to end the country’s often violent xeno-racism, met and wrote about women peace leaders in the war weary eastern provinces of Democratic Republic of Congo to challenge the too prevalent victim narrative about Congolese women, and sought out and studied small-scale Guatemalan transnational nonprofit leaders to test the domineering expertise of the large international nonprofit organizations. Christina strongly believes change happens when we approach each other as friends solving mutual problems that affect us both. Christina holds a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from the University of San Diego, a Master of Science in Conflict Resolution from the University of Oregon School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Oregon.