On Exhibit in July – Watercolors by Christina Turczyn

Christina has contributed watercolors to numerous exhibits including Cornell Has Talent. She was a student of Joel Popadics and Betsy Jacaruso. In her career as a writer, she has over one hundred publications in diverse magazines and journals. Those span international events covered at the Guggenheim and The World Around Summit.

Her writing honors include an Intro Award in Poetry from the Associated Writing Programs, first prize in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards (noted in The New York Times), as well as honorable mention in the Rita Dove National Poetry Awards. The Yara Arts Group, a resident company at the LaMaMa Experimental Theatre, has performed her poetry at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion in New York City over the years.

She attended the NY Times DealBook Conference and participated in the Global Diplomacy Lab in June of 2021 as a member of the Fulbright Association. Conference presentations include “In All the Sign Languages of the World,” Fulbright, CNN Center, Atlanta. In 2023, Christina attended a conference at the U.S. Institute for Peace in Washington, DC, held in conjunction with the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She is a member of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group and participated in the United Nations Commissions on the Status of Women 66 and 67.

Christina is, as well, a dis/ability advocate. In 2015, she attended a United Nations DPI/NGO meeting on the issue of “Technologies Available to Primary and Secondary Schools,” co-sponsored by the Rutgers Preparatory School, as a member of the Fulbright Association of New Jersey, where she had an opportunity to speak about dis/ability on U.N. TV. One of the areas that she is most intrigued by and committed to is ability equity in higher education. 

Christina was enrolled in the Business Data Analytics Program at Harvard University. She hopes to combine her many years of teaching with analytics to eventually work at the cutting edge of assistive technology.