Cristina López G. is a Salvadoran immigrant with an undergraduate law degree from Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios (ESEN), and a masters in public policy from Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. She joined Media Matters in 2014 focusing on immigration coverage as a researcher of Hispanic and Spanish-language media, and now leads the organization’s research into the forces that feed bigotry and the platforms it proliferates in as Deputy Director for Extremism.