Cristi has been a Tallahassee resident for 15 years, and has been working in the communications field for 8. She is a graduate of Florida State University with a degree in English-Editing, Writing and Media. An award-winning journalist, she previously worked for the CBS Affiliate for North Florida and South Georgia, WCTV Eyewitness News, as a breaking news Digital Producer, The Tally Wire, a lifestyle news site as its Editor in Chief, and Tall Timbers Research Station and Learn Conservancy as a Communications Coordinator. Currently, she is the head reporter for The Bradfordville Bugle, a monthly newspaper in Tallahassee, in her free time. Growing up under the oaks in the Red Hills, Cristi spent a lot of her time outside with her family, traveling to local and state parks around the area to explore, bird watch, and hike.. Today, life doesn’t look too different, and she spends most of her free time outside, going on hikes with her husband and two dogs - a black mouth cur mix, and a Boykin spaniel - cooking and baking, gardening, and doing waterfowl and wildlife photography.