Christina Rosales

she/her

Housing and Land Justice Director

Seattle, WA

Christina Rosales works with affiliates to build and grow housing and land justice campaigns and strategies that advance housing as a human right and put housing and land in community control.

Christina trained and worked as a newspaper reporter, which is excellent preparation for an organizer – if you can convince strangers to sit with you to tell you their story and shout challenging questions at authority, you’re halfway there! After covering so much tragedy, she left journalism to challenge the oppressive systems that are at the root of so many difficult news stories. Nikole Hannah-Jones’ 2012 ProPublica investigation, Living Apart, convinced her to focus on housing work.

Before coming to PowerSwitch Action, Christina was deputy director of Texas Housers, a statewide housing justice advocacy group where she worked on pandemic recovery, legislative advocacy for tenant protections, San Antonio tenant rights, and communications and messaging. While working at Texas Housers, Christina helped co-create a narrative video game called Dot’s Home about how housing, opportunity, and race collide in difficult choices.

At PowerSwitch Action, Christina has led the buildout of a housing and land justice program and worked with affiliates on local housing campaigns across the country.

She holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She’s presented at several conferences about strategies for equitable housing policy and using narrative strategy, art, and culture in organizing work.

Christina lives in Seattle, WA with her partner, son, and dog. She likes choral singing, watching baseball, and is sewing her way to a handmade wardrobe.