Early Years
Christina became a U.S. citizen in 2022 and decided to add a middle name, choosing this name that served as her government name for the first 21 years of her life.
What is Nayoon?
Christina was a worker bee in school. In fact, a neighbor once told her parents, "The light in her room is the last thing I see at night and the first thing I see in the morning"
Christina used walks to decompress between study sessions. This is the other activity Christina partook in when taking a break.
What is dancing?
We all know that Christina is passionate about yoga and mindfulness. If you stop by the San Francisco Zen center on Wednesdays, you're likely to find her holding this flower-named pose, often used for meditation.
What is lotus pose?
When you first met Christina, chances are she asked you for this common piece of identifying information, the answer to which she will never forget.
What is your birthday?
When leaving Korea at age, Christina and her family moved nearby this US city.
What is Los Angeles?
Outside school, Christina dedicated many hours to the international biology competition, iGEM.
This is the other international organization Christina played a prominent role in during high school, having been elected the state representative for Georgia.
What is Key Club?
This tea is Christina's favorite. Its name is heavy on one vowel and means 'black dragon' in Chinese
What is oolong?
Many of us know Christina for her willpower and high standards for hygiene. Unlike most of contemporaries, you will never see Christina enter a bathroom with this item on her person.
What is a phone?
Christina's birthday happened to land on Korean Independence Day. This other prominent Asian country shares an independence day on 8/15.
What is India?
As Christina evolved into the fashionista we know and love today, her wardrobe embodied the free-spirited ethos of this clothing style, known for its use of natural fabrics and embroidery.
What is bohemian?
Christina eats this polarizing food every morning, which serves as the star ingredient in many viral recipes due to its low calories and high protein content.
What is cottage cheese?
Christina has been diligently training pistol squats for the last year. This is the name for the muscle action occurring on the way down in this squat.
What is eccentric?
This is the name of the birthmark, common in East Asian babies, that appears as a blue-grey patch on the lower back and typically fades by adolescence.
What is army general?
Christina was deferred from Duke after applying early decision. Had she not been accepted, she would have attended this midwestern college, known for its world-class journalism program.
What is Northwestern?
Christina's favorite author published two famous novels about the Korean diaspora in 2007 and 2017. Her third book, which will complete this trilogy, arrives in September 2026.
Who is Min Jin Lee?
Christina recently bought a Schwinn bike from 1987, which happened to be the same year that this beloved sitcom, set in San Francisco, aired for the first time.
What is Full House?
Christina's paternal grandfather owned a printing business, which primarily did work with the government. This is the government position her other grandfather held.
What is army general?
Christina graduated from Duke with a degree in Economics, but she was not always on this path.
During her freshman year, she previously transferred to this different major that plays an essential role supporting infrastructure such as bridges and buildings.
What is Civil Engineering?
Christina's alternative career would be an architect, inspired in part by a class taken in her senior fall focused on the modern form.
This modern architect was most famous for Fallingwater, built in 1939 in Western Pennsylvania.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
At the end of her trip to Korea in April, Christina received a set of silk pajamas as a gift from her grandmother.
Silk was the ultimate luxury item carried across the silk road from China to this city, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople (Istanbul)?