Christina Chicas, Neighbor

Christina is currently a member of Montclair State University's Masters of Arts in Teaching program for Art Education, as well as a Graduate Assistant in the Montclair State Center of Pedagogy. She graduated Colgate University in 2009 with a Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing, and a minor in Art and Art History. When she's not in school herself, she teaches elementary summer school art classes in Ridgewood. She was recently initiated as a member of the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education. She describes herself as someone who "makes sense when you need someone to make sense."

She is also an artist, photographer and has worked as Publicity Director, Producer and DJ for the Colgate radio station. She was published in the Spring 2008 edition of the Colgate Academic Review. In high school, she served as editor of Amaranth, Paramus High School's literary magazine and won both first and second place for reviews and columns in the Garden State Scholastic Press Association school journalism competition.

She enjoys 90s alternative music, dogs with short legs, cooking, daisies, her poor old bicycle, dogs with long legs, commas, and Wes Anderson films.