BIO

Christina Gagnier is a partner at Gagnier Margossian, a law firm and strategic consultancy specializing in legal practice, strategic policy counsel and strategic communications for a variety of public and private sector clients. A proud Californian, Gagnier’s career began offline in the non-profit sector, working on initiative campaigns and coordinating voter turnout in California for causes relating to education.

Previously, Gagnier served as the Chief Information Officer of Mobilize.org, a non-partisan Millennial civic engagement organization, directing the organization’s strategic communications, online interface and research programs. Gagnier was also one of eight members of the National Conference on Citizenship’s 2008 Civic Health Index Millennial Working Group.

A researcher and information broker at heart, Gagnier focuses on the intersection of on and offline action, specializing in cyberspace law, telecommunications, transparency and privacy. From 2006-2008, Gagnier engaged in research for cyberlaw scholar Lawrence Lessig at Stanford University, working on Code 2.0 and Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. In Fall 2008, Gagnier’s Democracy 2.0: Millennial-Generated Change to American Governance was featured in the National Civic Review.

Although she will always consider herself an Anteater first (UC Irvine ’04), Gagnier is also an alumna of USC (M.P.A. ’07) and the University of San Francisco (J.D. ’08). When not attached to her iPhone, she enjoys Los Angeles, college basketball, western films and being a tech and policy geek.