Christina Laridaen

Christina Laridaen is a trusted advisor to clients and community leader in agriculture, environment, conservation, and resilience topics. She supports Lewis-Burke clients by providing in depth information about actions in Congress and at federal agencies and strategizing new initiatives and positioning for success. Christina is a key member of the firm’s agriculture practice and is intimately familiar with the ins and outs of research, education, and extension policy within USDA NIFA, ARS, and NRCS. Additionally, she has extensive experience assisting clients with strategies to support environmental and ecosystem sciences including through diversifying funding via lesser-known funding streams for this work across the federal agencies.

Issues: Agriculture, extension, environment and climate issues across agencies, resilience, oceanic and coastal research, environmental health and justice, geosciences

Before joining the Lewis-Burke team, Christina interned in the U.S. Senate, where she assisted on the research, commodity, and conservation titles in the 2018 Farm Bill in addition to covering regulation of bioengineered foods. Prior to moving to D.C., Christina worked as the Government and Legislative Affairs Coordinator for the Minnesota Student Association, where she managed advocacy efforts relevant to University of Minnesota students at all levels of government. At the State Capitol, she helped secure increases in biennium university funding by creating a statewide coalition of student advocates, regularly testifying at the legislature, and authoring letters on behalf of the student body to the Governor.

Christina is a graduate from the University of Minnesota, where she studied political science and applied economics. Her congressional experience traces all the way back to her high school days when she served as a United States Senate Page.