As the Faculty Research Coordinator, Christina Klimentos works to support research being conducted across the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2). Through grants administration and collaboration with faculty, she seeks to grow research capacity for faculty projects by connecting them with relevant funding opportunities, as well as, connecting interested SP2 students with opportunities for research most aligned with their academic interests.
She is a social worker by training with her Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania’s SP2, and her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Comparative Literature from Rutger University-New Brunswick. Prior to coming to SP2, she worked in clinical research with palliative cancer patients and caregivers at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Christina has also worked in the non-profit education and mental health care spaces with immigrants and asylum seekers at HIAS Pennsylvania and is passionate about supporting community engaged research, practice, and advocacy across her community of Philadelphia and beyond.