Christina S. Dawson

She has been a member of Nutter’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Committee and served as co-chair of Nutter’s Speaker Series for Diversity and Inclusion, collaborating with affinity groups from local law schools to present innovative and thought-provoking events for the community. Christina has also served as a mentor to law students.

Christina is working with a team of individuals to form 826 Dallas, which will be a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build a community of support to ensure that Dallas-area youth are able to access the power and the joy of writing. Christina also previously served as the chair of the Governance Committee for Wondermore, Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is to cultivate children’s curiosity, creativity, and academic achievement by bringing children’s authors and illustrators into underserved Boston Public Schools for visits and writing workshops that align with the curriculum.

Christina has previously served as an associate in the Private Client Department at Nutter and as an associate in the Wealth Management Group of another mid-size Boston law firm. She has also worked as an advanced planner for a large financial institution where she educated both clients and the broader organization regarding family wealth planning strategies, including estate, trust, gift, and charitable planning techniques. Earlier in her career, she was a summer associate at a mid-size Oklahoma law firm and a data analyst at the Liberty Mutual Group.

During law school, Christina served on the Journal of Science and Technology Law and as the internal vice president of the Black Law Students Association. In addition, she was a research assistant to a Boston University School of Law Intellectual Property professor.