Christine Nguyen

Christine is a research analyst for the Catalyst Center. She has experience implementing community-based participatory research and program evaluation that aims to facilitate meaningful policy, environmental, and/or systems change at the state and local level. The topics of the research and program evaluation projects she worked on include culturally and linguistically relevant mental health interventions, substance use and abuse, youth organizing, environmental inequities, and more. She is excited to continue evolving her understanding of communities as part of the Catalyst Center team. 

Born and raised in Southern California, Christine attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and received her B.A. in Psychology, and then hopped over to New York University, where she received her M.A. in Applied Quantitative Research. In addition to researching, she enjoys cooking and baking new recipes, trying to be a better runner, getting great sleep, and taking care of her five-feet-seven-inches dracaena fragrans plant whom she calls her “plant princess.”