Olympic & Centennial Hall

msimonetti@orl.ucla.edu

Resident Director

Olympic Hall

pmantanico@orl.ucla.edu

Assistant Resident Director

Olympic Hall

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.

Resident Director

Centennial Hall

Assistant Resident Director

Centennial Hall

mehtank@ucla.edu

Faculty-In-Residence

Olympic Hall

Now, this is a story all about how
My life took me to where I am now
And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became a prof at UCLA.

A bit north of Philadelphia born and raised
Boston is where I spent the next of my days
Getting my Masters and Bachelor's too
Engineering is the field I did then pursue.

Then a couple of years until I finally would
From California, Berkeley get my doctor hood
I got in one lil' postdoc and then I prepared
to move to LA just south of Bel Air.

I've done a bunch of things since I came here
I puzzled and board gamed and skated everywhere
If anything I could say that I like to play
But I thought "nah forget it, I live too far away"

After a number of years, a bit more than eight,
I yelled to ResLife "yo homes, let me stay"
Moved up to the hill, been a month so far
Living in Saxon Suites as your friendly FIR