MEET CHRISTINA


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Christina Hillsberg is a former CIA intelligence officer and writer. While at the CIA, she wrote analytic assessments for the President, his Cabinet, and other senior-level policymakers. Christina specialized in African politics and leaders and was one of the Intelligence Community's few Swahili and Zulu linguists. She later worked in the CIA's Directorate of Operations, clandestinely collecting intelligence from the field. She is the recipient of multiple CIA Exceptional Performance Awards.

Following her career at CIA, Christina worked in Information Security and Corporate Communications at Amazon before leaving to care for her children, stealing away to write whenever she can. She is the author of the USA Today Bestseller Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA and License to Parent: How My Career as a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient Kids. Her writing has been featured in outlets such as The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, Harvard Business Review, People Magazine, and more. She is represented by Alyssa Maltese at Root Literary and Charlotte Simms at WME.