Christine Barkley is an internship strategist, researcher, and educator who has spent her career helping organizations design and deliver impactful, equitable internship experiences. Before founding Internology, she served as Director of Curriculum, Research & Programming at a national internship education organization, where she oversaw the SHRM- and HRCI-accredited Internship Program Success Academy, led national research on employer practices through the Employer Internship Program Study, and developed resources aimed at expanding internship access and impact.

Christine has guided hundreds of employers through designing, facilitating, and improving internship and experiential education programs. She has also partnered closely with higher education institutions nationwide—delivering training, consulting with career centers, and helping align internship initiatives with evolving student needs and institutional strategies.

Christine approaches her work through a design thinking lens—a method she adopted after training with Stanford University’s Life Design Lab. This framework fuels Internology’s commitment to intentional program design, helping organizations move from reactive to strategic in how they structure, evaluate, and evolve their internship programs.

She holds a SHRM-CP certification along with credentials in Effective Management and Supervisory Essentials. Christine earned her master’s degree in Higher Education from Penn State University and holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Childhood Education and Mathematics from SUNY Cortland.