Christine Petro

Christine brings over 20 years of nonprofit expertise, with a career-long dedication to education, youth opportunity, and community-led transformative change. As a strategist with 10 years in leadership roles, she helps organizations secure the funding and clarity needed to scale their impact.

Christine’s work centers on grant strategy, positioning organizations to successfully compete for mission-critical funding. Her expertise in program design produces outcome-driven models rooted in equity, while her strategic planning process facilitates the roadmaps necessary to strengthen operations, deepen impact, and align efforts toward a bold vision.

This framework was honed over a decade in Brooklyn, NY, where Christine served on the leadership team of an environmental nonprofit. In this role, she advised on organizational strategic planning, while facilitating cross-functional team collaboration and processes. She also led the growth of a STEM and green career program portfolio that reached over 12,000 young people. By co-designing programs with diverse community partners, she created scalable frameworks that were adopted by other organizations to empower the next generation of environmental stewards.

Christine holds a B.A. from Frostburg State University and an M.A. in Sociology of Education from New York University. With roots in rural Ohio and Appalachian Maryland, she values the resilience and innovation found in small towns and cities alike. Now calling Durham, North Carolina home, she is a 2025 Goodmon Fellow with Leadership Triangle. While she misses her Brooklyn bike commute, she enjoys trading city streets for hikes on woodland trails. Christine is a proud parent to a child with developmental disabilities and finds joy in watching him thrive in their new home.