Before ThoughtLink, Christine worked as an analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency, where she co-developed and led the Urban Transportation Infrastructure Analysis group. As well as serving as a researcher and subject matter expert for urban transportation, infrastructure and network analysis, she created and evaluated online interactive systems and worked to develop new web-based tools in an effort to enhance intelligence analysis capabilities. She also served as a subject matter expert for Post-Conflict Reconstruction efforts in the Iraq Reconstruction Office, providing detailed analysis and feedback on transportation, logistics and telecom infrastructure projects in Iraq and attending strategy sessions with Department of Defense, State Department, USAID, the US military and private organizations.

Previously, she worked for think tanks at Harvard University, at the Unit for Housing and Urbanization, and Columbia University , at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, (CIESIN). At the Unit for Housing, she co-wrote an assessment of Microfinance Programs in Asia, Latin America, and Africa for USAID and assisted with writing a report on the Municipal Infrastructure Programs for the Government of South Africa. At CIESIN she researched the use of satellite imaging to document linkages between health, urban vegetation and physical space and assisted with creating a spatial database of human settlements using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing of satellite nighttime imagery.