Christi began her BRYC journey as a volunteer mentor in fall 2017, and she joined the team in 2019 to provide formal counseling services to BRYC Fellows and College Fellows. Christi is a highly effective counselor who has done a great deal at BRYC to eliminate stigmas, making therapy a resource that more and more students and parents/guardians are utilizing. Christi has also helped build systems and contributed to grants to expand BRYC’s mental health services capacity. Christi received her master’s in mental health counseling from Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge. She is not only a licensed professional counselor, but also a licensed professional counselor supervisor, a licensed addictions counselor, a nationally certified counselor, and a doctor of addiction psychology.