Dr. Christine Mangino serves as the sixth president of Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Before this role, she served in various faculty positions, including, department chair, Dean for Faculty and Curriculum, and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Hostos Community College. Earlier in her career, President Mangino was a pre-school and elementary school teacher. The first person in her family to attend college, Dr. Mangino earned an Associate of Applied Arts at Nassau Community College, a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Elementary Education at Hofstra University, and a doctoral degree in Instructional Leadership at St. John’s University.

Since starting her tenure at Queensborough Community College, she has led the college in the creation of its first Five-Year Strategic Plan, established a Truth, Transformation and Racial Healing Center, a Men’s Resource Center, and an equity dashboard for the campus to follow its progress in eliminating equity gaps for faculty, staff, and students.

Dr. Mangino serves as a Middle States Commission on Higher Education peer evaluator, on the Commission on Research and Community College Trends and Issues for the American Association for Community Colleges, as a board member for the Higher Education Research and Development Institute, on the Steering Committee for the Research Alliance for NYC Schools, and as an alum of the Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence, a leadership program that prepares community college presidents to transform institutions to achieve high and equitable levels of student success.