Before that, Christina was living and working in Washington DC. She worked as a Project Manager at Environmental Resources Trust Inc., an environmental non-profit organization that pioneers markets to improve the environment. She worked on developing a Solar Offset System for registering small project emission offsets. She helped launch a pilot test of the system in Uganda, Africa, and was able to meet the president and first lady of Uganda!The project also allowed her to travel to Milan, Italy at the 9th International Climate Change Conference (COP9). Her other project was generating demand for small wind systems in Virginia and she helped organize the logistics of a Wind Energy Conference in Virginia and was a speaker at the Student Renewable Energy Conference in North Carolina. She was also involved in compiling proposals and grants for funding.
In her free time, Chistina is always involved in the community. In DC she was teaching 4th grade music classes at Kimball Elementary in Southeast. She also led a team of High School students involved in a project of community development called Shaw EcoVillage. She organized weekly activities for the students and helps then get involved in their community in a sustainable way. She also volunteered in Anacostia with the DC Community Center and led hikes into the woods with ICO Inner City Outings.
Previously she worked in Peru with ARARIWA, a Peruvian based non-governmental organization working with promotion of techno-Andean culture and small community development. Ms. Keller helped begin a program in rural area of Urubamba that empowered women and created jobs. She developed the idea, which expanded to other aspects of rural indigenous life and helped create jobs for a small region of Peru. She lived and worked completely in Spanish. She has also worked with the environment and education as a resident naturalist at a summer camp in Northern Michigan. She taught classes and led field trips in addition to maintaining the nature center. She has business experience from two summers of internships at Cascade Engineering in Grand Rapids Michigan as a marketing intern and human resources intern.
Schooling has brought me from American International School of Zurich for high school to Boston College for a BA and American University for a Masters certificate in International Economics and finally arriving at Cornell for an MBA.
She was on the board of directors for Solar Light for Africa and has done three years of mission trips installing solar on schools and hospitals in Uganda and Tanzania.
She is committed to living a life of service, passion and protection of the environment.