Christine is from Jacksonville, FL where she recently completed an SCA internship in which she helped to protect a population of vulnerable beach dependant birds. She is a recent graduate from New College in Sarasota, FL where she majored in environmental studies. She wrote her senior thesis on the American Lawn, examining America's strange obsession with growing perfect expanses of non-native grasses in all corners of the country. She is excited to be in the Grand Canyon, Where there aren't any lawns, and she gets to be surrounded by distant beauty.