Christina Jenkins is a teacher and artist whose medium is school. She taught for a decade in New York City K-12 classrooms and now consults widely, supporting educators across the country to reimagine the future of learning. Her diverse influences in radical, democratic pedagogy range from Highlander and Black Mountain College to unschooling and the co-op preschool model.

At MICA, she served as the interim director of MA Social Design from 2024-25. As faculty in the program, she brings an interest in design's capacity to organize ordinary people towards social change.

Christina comes to MICA from Sacramento, where she lives on the same street where she grew up. In addition to teaching, she is a writer, printmaker, parent and neighbor. She is president of the board of S.O.U.R.C.E. Studio, founded by artist Mel Chin. Her current interests are in wealth redistribution and solidarity economies. Her last collection of essays, You Can Borrow My Cat Skeleton, explores the relationship between capitalism, neighbors and community in her local Buy Nothing group.