Christina Avalos

Christina Avalos is one of FRONTLINE’s Investigative Journalist Equity Initiative filmmakers. She’s a documentary producer passionate about telling character-driven stories that reveal the lives of those often left unseen. She began her career in documentary filmmaking after receiving a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Since then, she has helped produce feature documentaries and TV news documentary series for HBO, PBS, CNN and Netflix.

Her work has covered various topics that explore inequality in America, including the criminal justice system and capital punishment, addiction, housing insecurity and homelessness, and the racial wealth gap. Avalos produced a feature-length verité documentary with Story Syndicate. As FRONTLINE’s 2022 Hollyhock Filmmaker-in-Residence, she co-produced FRONTLINE’s Age of Easy Money, which aired in March. She is working with the production company Left/Right.