Prior to her current position, she spent nearly five years at CBC Mortgage Agency where she was tapped as diversity, equity and inclusion officer. In that role, she oversaw the Chenoa Fund, a nationwide down payment assistance program designed to make housing more affordable, especially for low- to -moderate-income buyers and first-time purchasers.
“I still speak regularly at conferences talking about diversity, equity and inclusion,” she said. “Especially after the repeal of affirmative action, those messages need to be shouted even higher from the rooftop because we don’t want to see all of our efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) be minimized just due to that ruling.”
Moreover, Christensen is chair of the American Mortgage Diversity Council and also hosts the California MBA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion podcast. As of January, she is co-chair of the DEI committee for the California MBA.
Together with former colleagues at the Chenoa Fund, she launched Arrive Home in January 2023. “We have some different program we can offer that we weren’t able to offer at Chenoa,” she said. “So it’s more competitive and forward thinking. We lean on technology quite a bit – just a more refreshed version of a new way to do DEI.”
She honed her communication skills at an early age
Invariably, people possess certain traits that help fuel their success. In Christensen’s case, she attributes her ability to connect with people as key to her own success.
Source: mpamag.com