Cristina is an actor, improviser and member of the screen actors guild having received formal training in acting, voice and dance in New York City.

She began her improv journey at Improv Olympic in Los Angeles. She later went on to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles where she studied long form and musical comedy while working as a work-study student on Friday Nights at UCB Franklin. This was only after spending her afternoon doing reps at some version of a speak-easy practice group at The Clubhouse’s Improv Bootcamp in Hollywood. Some would say this became a religious practice, or a cult—who's to tell the difference?

Some of her most influential and formative coaches whose pedagogy informs her own include Will Hines, Jaime Moyer, Suzi Barrett and James Mastraieni.

She also did character work at Second City Hollywood and was a cast member of the Second City’s premium show “ Hispanic Attack” sometime before we thought the world was going to end. The cast was also featured in the Los Angeles Diversity in Comedy Festival, celebrating talent from diverse backgrounds.

Cristina now works as an actor, instructor and in casting and film production.