Christina Pate (she/her) serves as a Technical Assistance Provider for the California Center for School Climate.

Christina is Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety and the Director of the Equity Accelerator funded by the Bechtel Family Foundation. She previously served as the Technical Assistance Lead for the National Institute of Justice’s Comprehensive School Safety Initiative in Atlanta Public Schools and was a Project Director and TA Liaison for SAMHSA’s Project AWARE at the Now is the Time TA Center. Christina has extensive experience in education, public health, wellness services, and service systems and brings a range of expertise in strategic planning, systems thinking, social–emotional development and mental health, educator well-being, leadership and collaboration, and organizational climate and culture.