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Biography of Christina Rohatynskyj
Christina Rohatynskyj has been the Executive Director of The Food Bank for Westchester since November 1993.
Ms. Rohatynskyj relocated from Lansing, Michigan where she was the Director of the American Red Cross Regional Food Distribution Center for seven years, helping to build the baby food bank from the ground up, services, service area and physical plant. She was one of the original members of the reorganized Food Bank Council of Michigan and served as a board officer for several years. As part of the American Red Cross, she worked on disaster assignments some as large as Andrew in Florida and was a volunteer member of the Service to Military Families team, helping to connect service people with family members to resolve emergency situations.
Prior to the Red Cross Ms. Rohatynskyj was a VISTA volunteer for two years working on local and statewide projects, Director of Client Services at a homeless shelter and Director of Education at a battered women’s shelter. While completing her education and supporting her infant daughter Ms. Rohatynskyj cooked for the Michigan State University Child Care Center in return for childcare, was weekend cook at the local juvenile detention center, worked as a chair side dental assistant, cleaned houses, tended bar, taught art classes and was a secret shopper.
Ms. Rohatynskyj has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (BFA), a Master of Fine Art in Studio Art (MFA) and has decided not to complete a PhD in Community Development but is considering a degree in Natural Healing, which has been a life long interest. And just recently reinvigorated her passion art by studying in the south of France with Andrew Petrov.
Ms. Rohatynskyj’s proudest achievement is her daughter Tetiana, a journalist, who after four years of living and working in the Middle East has returned to the states and is now the east coast reporter for the Weather Channel.
Ms. Rohatynskyj was born in a small town near Vienna, Austria. Prior to coming to America she lived in a DP camp in Germany with her mother, father and two sisters. Her mother believes that Christina, being a middle child, having fallen into a community garden rain well (at age 3) and clinging to a rusty pipe for two hours before being found, and being greeted by a bombing raid during birth that destroyed everything but the room she and her mother and older sister were in, helped mold her into the person she is today. No one is sure if that is good or bad.
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