Crista Martinez Padua is executive director of Families First Parenting Programs, which strives to build strong relationships between parents and their children by educating families as well as the professionals who serve them through hands-on workshops. She was appointed to the city of Boston’s Mayor’s School Readiness Action Planning Team and served on a subcommittee of Gov. Patrick’s Readiness Project Leadership Council.
- Nombre: Crista R. Martínez Padua
- Título: CEO (de tiempo completo); Profesora adjunta (tiempo parcial)
- Compañía: Families First Parenting Programs y Boston College Graduate School of Social Work
- Edad: 39
- Estudios: Licenciatura en Psicología y Maestría en Trabajo Social, University of Tennesse; Maestría en Administración de Empresas (MBA), Boston University
- Residencia: Jamaica Plain
- Parte favorita de su trabajo: Saber que la gente se ha beneficiado de Families First
- Parte más difícil de su trabajo: Recaudación de fondos
- Lugar favorito para vacacionar: Cualquier lugar con mi familia y/o mejores amigos
- Talento inusual: Caligrafía
- Libro favorito: «A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man», de James Joyce
- Película favorita: «Life is Beautiful»
- Restaurante favorito: Tapeo
- Artista/Música que me relaja: Vicente Fernández y Diana Krall
- Música que me estimula: U2
- Frase favorita: «The essence of love is to affectively affirm as well as unselfishly delight in the well being of others, and engage in acts and care of service on their behalf, without exception, in an enduring and constant way»
