Kristina Thiessen holds Bachelor's of Arts in Psychology from The King’s University. During her time at The King’s University, she has worked on a couple research projects which encouraged her to seek further work in this field and planted the seed for her desire to conduct her own research in the future. Within this research project Kristina helps analyze and code collected data, as well as managing social media sites. 

In her spare time, she enjoys fitness as well expressing herself in many different creative outlets such as crafting and journaling. Kristina has always had an interest in the transition to sustainability, growing up as a conservative Mennonite on the great lakes in Ontario, the environment and its protection has been vital to her upbringing. She hopes to better understand effective sustainability agents in hopes to bring about actual meaningful change towards sustainability.