Cristina Abello

Cristina works primarily on libel, confidentiality, and privacy issues. Cristina is a D.C.-area native

and graduated from the Washington College of Law at American University. Cristina was a

Reporters Committee legal intern during her third year of law school. She was also a judicial intern

to Judge Rafael Diaz of the D.C. Superior Court, interned at Media Access Project in

Washington, D.C., and worked as a law clerk at Cordier Law Offices in Rockville, Md. She spent

her undergrad years at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College

Park, and was a staff writer for The Diamondback. Cristina's writing has also appeared in

USA Today and Washingtonian magazine.