Christina Vergara

Artist, Brainstormer, Project manager

Christina Vergara, Vice President of Education and Program Development / Christina has built a career leading high-profile educational programs that promote diversity, advocate learning, and reflect current trends in professional development as well as in broadcast, cable and related media spaces. At WICT, she is responsible for executing the organization’s professional education strategy, overseeing the development and delivery of leadership education and other programs related to WICT’s mission. Prior to WICT, she served as the Director of Convention Education at NAB, managing a team of internal and external partners to produce over a dozen distinct educational programs as part of the NAB’s annual trade show serving 85,000 + media professionals. Before that, Christina served with NATPE over fifteen years in a number of roles, including oversight of the organization’s event programming. Programs under her direction included the annual NATPE conference, a complement to and highlight of the television industry’s prominent program marketplace, and the annual LATV Fest.

I'm passionate about creativity in many forms - idea generation, creative expression, creative control, creative collaboration and partnering - in service of productivity, function, form and enjoyment

TED talk by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: "When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life." He is the architect of the notion of "flow" -- the creative moment when a person is completely involved in an activity for its own sake.

Conference Design & Production, Creativity, Entertainment & Media, leadership development, Management, Program and project management, Program Design and Development, Requirements / Gap Analysis, Storytelling