Chrystine was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and runs the revenue team for BUILD.org, a ~$10M entrepreneurship based non-profit. Prior to joining BUILD in 2012, Chrystine worked at Khosla Ventures, a $1.4B fund, with luminaries such as Vinod Khosla, Tony Blair and Gideon Yu. Previously she was a lead negotiator for $17M in city, county and state worker contracts in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties and for the State of California. Chrystine has also served as a Political Director at South Bay Labor Council where she worked on political strategies that affected working families.

Now in her role as Managing Director of Partnerships & Investments, Chrystine establishes relationships with BUILD’s strongest supporters and is championing BUILD’s mission to serve more students nationally. Chrystine is the proud mother to four beautiful boys–Carlitos, Joaquin, Daniel and Emiliano–and fortunate wife to her husband, Carlos.