Christina Veiga

As the senior director of media relations for News Literacy Project (NLP), Christina Veiga drives press coverage and builds awareness of the organization’s work, mission and impact. She coordinates media requests for information and interviews and plays a key role in promoting National News Literacy Week and other NLP events. 

Before joining NLP, Christina was a journalist for more than a decade. She started her career at the Miami Herald newspaper in Florida, where she covered several local government beats and the Miami-Dade County public school system. She went on to Chalkbeat, a nonprofit digital news organization, where she wrote about school segregation and early childhood education in New York City. 

Christina earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Florida International University.