Christine Gentry

Christine Gentry currently serves as Director of Teacher Development & Licensure for a network of public high schools in Boston, where she manages and implements all facets of the Urban Teaching Fellowship, an initial licensure teacher residency program. Her work explores the intersection of identity development and community in the urban public school classroom. As an instructor in the Curriculum and Teaching department of Boston University, Christine sits on the equity, diversity, and inclusion committee and heads the partnership steering committee. She also sits on Harvard’s First-Generation Alumni Mentorship Committee and serves as a teacher educator effectiveness advisor for the Massachusetts Department of Education. Before her current role, Christine taught English, creative writing, and oral storytelling in the public schools of Boston and New York City for twelve years.

In her spare time, Dr. Gentry writes short stories, performs in oral storytelling shows, and produces/hosts the Boston branch of The Story Collider. Her writing has been published in Word Riot, The English Record, and Printer’s Devil Review magazines, and her oral stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour, PBS’s Stories from the Stage, and NPR’s This American Life. Christine holds an MEd from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a PhD from Columbia University.