16 Facts About Christina Kahrl

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Christina Kahrl is the former executive editor of the think tank's website, BaseballProspectus.

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Christina Kahrl is a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

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Christina Kahrl graduated from El Camino High School in Sacramento, California in 1985.

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Christina Kahrl graduated from the University of Chicago in 1990, with a concentration in Modern European History and a minor concentration in Ancient History.

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Christina Kahrl was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

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From 2000 to 2005, Christina Kahrl was employed as an acquisitions editor at Brassey's Sports, a mid-list publisher that focused on sports history and analysis.

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In 2008, Christina Kahrl was accepted as a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America and thus became eligible to vote on Major League Baseball post-season awards and nominees for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Christina Kahrl voted for the American League Rookie of the Year in 2009 and for the National League Manager of the Year in 2010.

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On November 10,2016, Christina Kahrl announced she has been promoted to MLB Senior Editor at ESPN and will be relocating to ESPN Headquarters in Connecticut.

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Christina Kahrl became sports editor of The San Francisco Chronicle in March 2021.

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In 2014 Christina Kahrl was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.

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Since 2007, Christina Kahrl has been active in the LGBT community, helping out with transgender programming at the Center on Halsted, running the support group and adding a seminar series and an open mic night to its programming, as well as speaking about activist efforts in the area.

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Christina Kahrl has spoken to local student groups and on college campuses about acceptance of transgender people in society and in sports, and on transgender issues.

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Christina Kahrl is a member of the board of Illinois Gender Advocates, and co-chair of IGA's action committee.

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Christina Kahrl has helped organize the public observation of Transgender Day of Remembrance in Chicago.

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16.

Christina Kahrl, who identifies as bisexual, married Charley Wanamaker in 2014.

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