Christina Pushaw spent most of her childhood in Malibu, California and Florida where her father worked as a visiting professor to Florida State University in 1999.
18 Facts About Christina Pushaw
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Christina Pushaw obtained a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Southern California in 2012.
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Christina Pushaw formed a Georgian non-profit, New Leaders Initiative, to teach young Georgians about democracy and international affairs.
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Giuli Alasania, Saakashvili's mother said that Christina Pushaw told her the same story.
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From June 2017 to August 2019, Christina Pushaw worked for Stand Together, a philanthropic organization founded by Koch as an international political consultant.
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In late 2017, Christina Pushaw organized a pro-Saakashvili rally at the Embassy of Ukraine.
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Christina Pushaw volunteered for his staff during 2018 and joined his staff full-time in 2019.
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In June 2022, the Department of Justice reached out to Christina Pushaw and asked to register as a foreign agent per the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Christina Pushaw hired former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael R Sherwin, to represent her for the FARA registration.
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Christina Pushaw worked as an freelance journalist and had work published in national conservative outlets like The National Interest and Human Events.
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In February 2021, Christina Pushaw published an article in Human Events criticizing Rebekah Jones, a Florida Department of Health employee who was fired in May 2020 for insubordination.
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In March 2021, Christina Pushaw wrote a letter to the governor's office expressing interest in working for DeSantis' communication team.
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Christina Pushaw was then hired as press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in May 2021.
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Christina Pushaw worked in the position until August 2022 before leaving to join DeSantis's 2022 gubernatorial reelection and later 2024 presidential campaign teams as rapid response director.
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Christina Pushaw demanded the Associated Press change a report that a DeSantis donor had invested in a COVID-19 treatment, Regeneron, that DeSantis had been promoting.
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Christina Pushaw called for her social media followers to "drag them" but said she did not mean to call for violence, that it was a slang term, and she deleted the tweet so as to not be misunderstood.
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Christina Pushaw later retracted the claim after stating that it had been misinterpreted.
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In September 2022, Christina Pushaw gave a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, Florida.