Christina Carmelle Lopez, MBA, MIA, is a higher education consultant and manager for Deloitte (a leading global management and technology consulting firm) and has worked in higher education for nearly two decades. She is a lifelong learner and loves sharing her knowledge through writing. Over the past twenty years, she’s written for various print and online newspapers, magazines, and journals, including The Huffington Post. 

A former U.S. diplomat, Christina holds a master’s degree in International Relations as well as an MBA in International Business. She loves to travel and spent years living overseas while working for the State Department at the U.S. Embassy, London. 

In her latest work, Get the Degree Without Losing Your Mind: The Busy Student’s Guide to Study Hacking, she draws from decades of working alongside students and her personal experience as a first-generation college student to seamlessly integrate time-tested study methods with the latest breakthroughs in brain science.

Christina is currently based in Los Angeles.