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Brief Biography

Christina is a doctoral candidate in Global Development Studies. She holds an MA in Geography from Queen’s University and a BSc in Environmental Science from Carleton University. She also has experience working in government and language teaching. 

Research Interests

Christina researches the justice outcomes of climate finance in Colombia and Indonesia’s energy transitions. Christina uses a qualitative, multi-scalar comparative case study design, linking macro-level financial governance tools to their local impacts. 

Awards

• 2026 Mitacs Globalink Research Internship
• 2025-26 Senator Frank Carrel Fellowship
• 2024-25 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
• 2019-20 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s (CGS-M)
• 2019 David Edney Research Travel Award
• 2018-19 Queen's Graduate Award                                                                                                            

Teaching Experience 

• DEVS 361: Policy Advocacy (winter 2025, winter 2026)
• DEVS 280: Global Engagement (fall 2024, fall 2025)
• DEVS 260: Globalization, Gender, and Development (summer 2025)
• BIOL 243: Introduction to Statistics (summer 2019, fall 2019 [online course development], winter 2020)
• GPHY 101: Introduction to Human Geography (fall 2018, winter 2019)

Publications

Frendo, C. (2025). Feeding the green gentrification machine: Urban Agriculture and the Barriers to a Just Ecological Transition in Montréal, Québec. Urban Geography.

Donald B., Frendo C., & Southey, B.P. (2020). Public geographies. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition. pp. 75-77. Elsevier, New York.

McCune, J., Frendo C., Ramadan M., & Baldwin, L. (2020). Comparing the effect of landscape context on vascular plant and bryophyte communities in a human-dominated landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32(1), e12932.

Little A.J., Sivarajah B., Frendo C., Sprague D.D., Smol J.P., & Vermaire J.C. (2019) The impacts of century-old, arsenic-rich mine tailings on multi-trophic level biological assemblages in lakes in Cobalt, ON. Science of the Total Environment, 709, 1-14.