Christina Rodriguez joined Old Dominion University in Fall 2022 as a Professor and Director of Clinical Training of the PhD program in Clinical Psychology. She is a licensed clinical child psychologist in Virginia, and her primary area of research focuses on at-risk, abusive parenting and family violence. To better understand potential avenues leading to at-risk compared to positive parenting, her Parenting Challenges with Kids (PaCK) Lab advances the theoretical and methodological science to understand factors that affect parenting in challenging circumstances. She obtained her PhD in clinical and health psychology from the University of Florida and then completed her pre-doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tennessee-Memphis. She began her academic career at the University of Otago in New Zealand, followed by work at the University of Utah, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, former president of the association’s Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice division, and former elected member of the association’s Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest. She serves on the Editorial Boards of four empirical journals, including the Journal of Child & Family Studies, Journal of Marriage & Family, Child Abuse & Neglect, and Child Maltreatment.