Christina Barstow
Career Area: Global Engineering - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene - Energy.
Degree earned at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and year: PhD Civil Engineering, 2016.
Title and name of the company I currently work for: Chief Operating Officer, Bridges to Prosperity.
A little about my career path: I am a program development and management enthusiast. I have spent my career striving to use data driven research to design, implement and ultimately prove benefits of largescale international development programs. Over the last decade my work has focused on research and implementation across a range of international development sectors including water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), nutrition, energy and infrastructure. Much of my career has been focused in East Africa, most significantly leading the in-country design and operations of a nation-wide campaign, distributing household water and energy products to half a million rural Rwandese. I am a Distinguished Young Alumni from the University of Colorado where I earned a PhD in Environmental Engineering and have published over a dozen peer reviewed papers. In 2016, I received the Science and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science where I served as the Water, Evaluation and Behavior Change Advisor at the US government funded aid agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).
List of topics students can ask me about: international development, program management, WASH, rural transport infrastructure