Christine Ortiz Gumina is a Project Coordinator for the National Environmental Health Association in Washington DC. She received her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Global Environmental Health from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia and preceded to work at the Norfolk Department of Health as an Environmental Health Specialist. In 2016, Christine was part of the Intergovernmental Pilot Project (IPP) with the Center of Sea Level at Old Dominion University. Her analysis on Climate Change and Environmental Health affects in the Hampton Roads Region was part of the overall IPP report sent to the White House. Her experience as an Environmental Health Specialist at the Norfolk Health Department focused on community outreach in topic areas of food safety, rabies control, vector control, water contamination, and other environmental factors that affect human health.