Christina Everist is a Regional Director/Account Executive at Collins & Company and specializes in information technology policy, international affairs, and appropriations issues. Ms. Everist works with a wide range of customers from foreign governments to innovative defense companies and helps them to identify federal objectives and works to design and execute strategies to achieve them. She joined the firm in February 2004.

Among her diverse customer base, Ms. Everist lobbies for a prominent state officials association, where she advocates for the effective use of information technology for civilian government applications at the federal, state, and local levels. As the Association's lead Washington lobbyist, Ms. Everist was successful in assisting the Association obtain legislative language that would help improve intergovernmental cyber security by requiring that a state cyber security strategy and assessment process be developed to protect critical information and communications technology systems. In addition, Ms. Everist has worked with various international governments including the diplomatic team of a small Latin American nation to help them to negotiate, marshal Congressional support for, and pass a free trade agreement with the United States.

Prior to joining Collins & Company, Ms. Everist worked as a Field Representative for Senator John Thune (R-SD) during the 2002 Federal Midterm elections and aided the Senator in his efforts to pursue a seat in the US Senate.

Ms. Everist has also worked as an intern for a Washington-based lobbying firm specializing in international relations. In this capacity, she worked extensively with global energy policy and was responsible for researching current events and monitoring legislation, policies and regulations.

Ms. Everist was a Dean’s List student and graduated from the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado with a B.A. in International Affairs. She spent her junior year studying abroad at both the University of Alicante and the University of Seville in Spain where she focused on refining over six years of Spanish language study. Ms. Everist also completed an independent study program while living in South Africa.

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