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Getting to Know CHRISTINA
Advocacy Advisor
Christina Goebel, M.A. is the author of GoldenHeart: How to Love Humanity, an inspiration manual about how to love yourself, others, and the world. She is the Chief Operations Officer of Mindsets, a business that encourages you to be your best self. Using books by author and major Twitter influencer Harry Petsanis as the basis, Mindsets provides the tools for you to become your best self. Before working with Sign Shares Inc & Capsule, Christina worked as a Project Specialist, on a State level, for Outreach and Education, and as a Conference Coordinator. The annual, cross-disability conferences brought individuals with disabilities and professionals together for to enjoy educational sessions and exhibits from 50 to more than 100 businesses and organizations represented by attendees. She was also an editor of the Texas SILC’s “Good Information” newsletter, a cross-disability news publication that grew from 200 to 600 statewide subscribers. Before that, Goebel taught English for 14 years to students in grades 6-12 at both National Blue Ribbon and inner city schools in Austin and Miami. During her spare time, Goebel has worked with Blind Ministry, people who are homeless, Habitat for Humanity, educated adults so they could pass their G.E.D. or learn English as a second language, produced and edited a literary e-zine, and taught students to paint with acrylics. She has a bachelor’s in Secondary English Education from Florida International University and a master’s in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She worked with Sign Shares Inc as a Disability Advocacy Manager and virtual executive assistant and with The Capsule Group Inc. Prior, to her being a part of Sign Shares, Inc. and The Capsule Group Inc. Christina was an event planner and advocate for the Texas State Independent Living Council. Christina has a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary English Education from Florida International University of Miami and a Master's Degree in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She has progressive, severe/profound bilateral hearing loss and wears two hearing aids. Her son, Alexi, also has hearing loss and wears a cochlear implant and a hearing aid. Christina is finishing work on her second book, an illustrated dystopian science fiction/fantasy novel: Birth Right: The Battle for the Throne, the first of a trilogy. |