Dr. Christina M. H. Powell

Dr. Christina M.H. Powell, PhD is the author of Questioning Your Doubts: A Harvard PhD Explores Challenges to Faith (InterVarsity Press).

She works in medical writing management in the pharmaceutical industry (and still actively writes) and is also an ordained Assemblies of God minister and public speaker. She previously worked as a biomedical research scientist at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she earned her doctorate degree. She taught university courses in microbiology and biochemistry at Penn State University and served on the Board of Trustees of Penn State University (1987-1990) (Photo below taken in State College, Pennsylvania in 1988 when Dr. Powell was 21 years old, engaged to another Penn State student, and known as Christina M. Henke.) She completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Penn State in three years, graduating with honors and with highest distinction in 1988. She stayed on at the University for two additional years, taking graduate classes so she could finish her three-year term as Trustee. She is also the mother of two daughters, one a Penn State alumna in the field of economics and one a current Penn State student.

Young woman standing with portfolio
Christina M. Henke (Age 21)
Now Christina M. H. Powell, PhD

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