Christa Avampato is a writer, product developer, and biomimicry scientist whose career has stretched across Capitol Hill, Broadway theatre, education, nonprofit fundraising, health and wellness, and companies ranging from scrappy startups to Fortune 500 companies in retail, media, entertainment, technology, and finance. She combines storytelling, business, and science to build a better world for all beings through her company, Double or Nothing Media. Currently, she works with Carnegie Hall on Carnegie Hall+, a new streaming service for music lovers. An award-winning author for her young adult novel, Emerson Page and Where the Light Enters, her journalism has appeared in The Washington Post, Natural History magazine, The Henry Ford magazine, Pipeline Artists, the Biomimicry Institute’s Ask Nature, Inside History magazine, and Mongabay. In 2022, her essay Science: A Love Story was published by Chicago Storytellers in their anthology, Storytellers' True Stories About Love.She’s been a speaker at SXSW, Wildlife Conservation Society, Virginia Festival of the Book, Teach for America, Games for Change, NYU, CUNY, Columbia University, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, Brooklyn Brainery, and HerStories. She was an associate producer for the PBS documentary series Live at 9:30.Christa lives in New York with her rescue dog, Phineas, and is currently working on her graduate degree in sustainability at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge.