Christina Petagna
Mid-Atlantic Funding Navigator Manager
Christina Petagna is the Mid-Atlantic Funding Navigator Manager for EPIC. She’s excited to bring her varied water experience to EPIC to provide assistance to water and wastewater providers. Prior to beginning her EPIC journey, Christina received her masters in Environmental Science and Engineering from UNC Chapel Hill where she studied the links and risks between natural, engineered, and financial systems and wrote her thesis on the balance between supply and financial risk in water utility decision-making under uncertainty. Before going to graduate school she built her career in the tri-state area. She started as an environmental consultant focusing on groundwater projects in NJ and PA. Transitioning into the public sector, she was a natural resource manager for the NJ Highlands Council and followed the experience up as a consultant helping small applicants in NY state navigate the complexities of the FEMA public assistance program. Christina holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from Rutgers University.
Get to Know Me Further
Though I now consider myself an adopted daughter of New Jersey, I’m originally from Arizona where my love for water began. I was fortunate enough to spend some time volunteering at my local water utility one summer where I gained an appreciation for the work of water and wastewater providers, who I really believe are our communities’ unsung heroes. Outside my work with water utilities I like to explore the state of New Jersey (beaches, hikes, farms, cities, and everything in between), experiment in the kitchen with whatever produce has ripened in the family garden, and get together with my friends - including a weekly dungeons and dragons night I host with my husband.