Research Discipline/Bio
Christina Torres (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a research associate and the center coordinator at the Center for Sustainable Futures, with a research interest in climate change education. Christina is also an adjunct professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she teaches an Ecology and Environmental Problems course to students pursuing sustainable fashion. She is dedicated to promoting sustainability within university campuses as the co-president of the Sustainability Task Force at TC and the faculty advisor of the Ethics and Sustainability student initiative at FIT. Christina was previously the co-founder and chief scientific officer of the B2B SaaS startup See Thru (formerly Skinno) with the goal of democratizing the scientific information behind consumer goods. She completed a B.S./M.S. at the City College of New York, and studied the community composition of Neotropical wood boring beetles.
Educational Background
Teachers College, Columbia University: Fall 2020 – Present
Graduate Research Assistant: August 2022 – Present
Arthur Zankel Urban Fellow, Project Youth at the Center: August 2020 – August 2022
The City College of New York Honors Program (Full-Tuition Scholarship), CUNY: Fall 2013 – January 2019
Biology B.S./M.S.; Jewish Studies Minor
Publications/Exhibitions
Torres C, Barrios H, Pinzon-Navarro S, Berkov A. (2023). Wood trait preferences of Neotropical xylophagous beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Biotropica, 56(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13284
Last Updated: Oct 6, 2024