Christine Zibas

Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Counting Crows, Bob Marley, Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, anything classical or jazz

The Coast of Chicago, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Mansfield Park, I Sailed with Magellan, Bel Canto, The Patron Saint of Liars, The Hours, Hotel New Hampshire, Bird by Bird, The Opposite of Fate, The Constant Gardener, A Spy by Nature, A Year in the World, Tender at the Bone, Julie and Julia, A Movable Feast, I See You Everywhere

Lost in Translation, Out of Africa, Hannah and Her Sisters, Stranger than Fiction, Marie Antoinette, Garden State, Pride and Prejudice, Monsoon Wedding, anything with subtitles

Washington Week in Review, any news show featuring discussions with policy wonks

The Acropolis, New York City, art museums of London, Kew Gardens, the neighborhoods of Chicago, South Beach, Cozumel, Barcelona, Spanish Steps, Yosemite, the pink sands of Bermuda, Getty Museum, vineyards of Napa and Sonoma, North Beach, Louvre, Muir Woods

literature, politics, modern art, travel, learning new things

Democrat

raised Catholic, practicing agnostic

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, International Institute for Strategic Studies, International Association of Assessing Officers

Western Illinois University, coursework at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; Oxford University, UK; and George Washington University, Washington DC