Christina Gooden

NASPA-AL Communications Coordinator

Coordinator at First Year Experience
The University of Alabama

Before her appointment as the Communications Coordinator for NASPA-AL, Christina (she/her) served on the NASPA-AL Drive-In Conference planning committee in 2021 and 2023. Christina currently works in First Year Experience at The University of Alabama as a Coordinator. Christina completed her Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Information Sciences in 2018 at The University of Alabama, and she’s a 2022 graduate of The University of Alabama with a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration. Before starting her master’s degree, Christina served in the Teach For America corps as a middle and high school mathematics teacher in Birmingham City Schools. Christina is passionate about student transition, retention and establishment of sense of belonging; Christina has worked with these efforts in her graduate assistantship with being a Community Director in Housing and Residential Communities, her previous full-time role as a Student Life Specialist within a Parent & Family Programs office, and in her current role as a coordinator in First Year Experience. In her free time, Christina enjoys being outside, playing pickleball, reading, cooking, and traveling.