Olympic & Centennial Hall
People To Know
Marissa Simmonetti
msimonetti@orl.ucla.edu
Resident Director
Olympic Hall
Paola Mantanico
pmantanico@orl.ucla.edu
Assistant Resident Director
Olympic Hall
Dr. Tina Christie
tina.christie@ucla.edu
Faculty-in-Residence
Centennial Hall
Christina (Tina) Christie is Wasserman Dean and Professor in the School of Education and Information Studies. Tina lives with her partner, Michelle, two children, Grace (14) and Eli (8), and two pandemic puppies, Lola (4) and Latte (4).
She earned her Ph.D. from UCLA, then served on the faculty at the Claremont Colleges for 9 years before returning to UCLA in 2010 as a faculty member. She was appointed Wasserman Dean of the School of Education and Information Studies in 2021. Her scholarship aims to strengthen our understanding of program and policy evaluation as a method for facilitating social change. Her work has three main foci: she conducts applied evaluation research studies, research on evaluation practice, and theoretical analysis.
Ultimately, she hopes that her work helps to bridge the academic and practical worlds of evaluation science and contributes to the body of knowledge that promotes positive program and policy reform.
Stephanie Guarda
sguarda@orl.ucla.edu
Resident Director
Centennial Hall
Christine King
cking@orl.ucla.edu
Assistant Resident Director
Centennial Hall
Dr. Irene Chen
ireneachen@ucla.edu
Faculty-In-Residence
Olympic Hall
Irene Chen is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. She grew up in San Diego, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Harvard, and earned an M.D. from the joint Harvard-M.I.T. program and a Ph.D. in Biophysics at Harvard. Her laboratory studies nanoscale synthetic biological systems to learn about the origin of life and to develop antimicrobial agents. She is curious about all things science and beyond. To wind down she likes to read speculative fiction and play BTD6 with her kids. Her spouse, Michael Schindlinger, grew up in New York and attended Berklee School of Music before earning his Ph.D. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. They live on the Hill with their two boys, ages 8 and 13, and their cat.
