About
Christina Mascarenas graduated from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism in Columbia with a master’s in journalism with a concentration in strategic communications and public relations. Her research focus and thesis: "The Role of Public Information Officers in Local American Government." She has previously earned a master’s degree in leadership (SAHE: student affairs in higher education) from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and a bachelor’s of mass communications from Colorado State University-Pueblo.
She is the public relations assistant and copy writer with Missouri Science and Technology Policy Initiative (MOST). She has been a Pathways public affairs student trainee at the USDA Economic Research Service and the Department of Veterans Affairs; she’s worked in higher education as the student support program coordinator for the Upward Bound TRiO program working with low-income, first-generation high school students; and was an entrepreneurship for 10 years owning a portrait studio specializing in creating photographic artwork of infants and children. She’s a fifth generation Coloradan and a cat mom.
She is the public relations assistant and copy writer with Missouri Science and Technology Policy Initiative (MOST). She has been a Pathways public affairs student trainee at the USDA Economic Research Service and the Department of Veterans Affairs; she’s worked in higher education as the student support program coordinator for the Upward Bound TRiO program working with low-income, first-generation high school students; and was an entrepreneurship for 10 years owning a portrait studio specializing in creating photographic artwork of infants and children. She’s a fifth generation Coloradan and a cat mom.