Christine Gentry

Educator. Storyteller. Producer.

Christine Gentry joins BBQ on the list of good things to come out of Texas. She holds a Ph.D. in English Education from Columbia University and currently serves as the inaugural director of the Yale Teaching Fellowship at Yale University, where she is partnering with local organizations to design and implement a brand-new, fully-funded teacher pipeline for New Haven Public Schools. In what little spare time she has, Christine performs in oral storytelling shows and leads workshops for The Story Collider. Her writing has been published in English Journal, The English Record, and Printer's Devil Review magazines, and her oral stories have been featured on the TEDx stage, The Moth Radio Hour, and This American Life. She is also a Moth Mainstage performer and three-time Moth GrandSLAM champion.

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