Who is Christine Forbes?
Christine Forbes is a Brooklyn-based multimedia journalist covering culture, style, education, and justice. Her storytelling mediums include photography, writing, and videography. As a South Florida girl with West Indian roots, Christine strives to inspire empathy, engagement, and hope through her art.
After a decade of writing and producing for some of the most prominent media outlets of our time, Christine remains committed to cultural preservation at the highest levels of journalistic integrity.
Through her independent platform, Warm Touch Studios, Christine produces creative projects in collaboration with clients ranging from artists and organizers to editors and business owners. Her commercial photography portfolio includes promotional shoots, editorial portraits, and documentary stills.
Christine’s musings on culture, identity, and justice can be read in BYRDIE, Reckon News, Cosmopolitan, Bustle, and Prevention Magazine. She is also the original Writer-Researcher and Associate Producer of BYRDIE’s social series, Crowned, which earned a Gold Viddy Award, Glossy’s Best Use of Video Award, and a nomination for Best Short Form Video from Cynopsis Media.
Since childhood, Christine has loved art — a love that led her to audition and train with the Ailey School and win her first national essay contest before graduating high school. In 2025, Christine was selected for the Bandung Residency by the Asian American Arts Alliance and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts. Her upcoming series, Styling Solidarity, explores moments of tension and possibility in beauty retail spaces.
Christine began her career in broadcast as an Emma Bowen Fellow at Bay News 9, NY1 Live At Ten, and later CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. Christine's production and scriptwriting expertise informed her contributions to Vixen, Rate the Bars, Hairstory, Prelude, and other BET Digital Series. While serving BET’s audiences, Christine realized her flair for editorial lifestyle and commerce writing. A beauty internship at Hearst Magazines prepared Christine to write numerous viral shopping articles as a Staff Writer for BuzzFeed.
Christine’s commitment to full and fair narratives inspired her to rehabilitate incomplete and outdated coverage for ThoughtCo, Travel + Leisure, BRIDES, and The Spruce Eats on behalf of Dotdash Meredith’s Anti-Bias Review Board. Her recommendations on language and sound publishing practices were adopted into the editorial policies of BYRDIE and BuzzFeed. Christine occasionally consults for the Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding to promote equitable media coverage of historically marginalized people.
As a New York 1 News intern, Christine was encouraged by her mentor, Cheryl Wills, to write scripts for air during nightly health segments. For two years, Christine translated science into public policy as the Deputy Managing Editor of Public Health Reports. Understanding that responsible framings promote collective safety, Christine’s disability justice project, Surviving Ivy, investigates the mental health crisis in higher education.
An alumna of Barnard College, Christine holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Theory. She studied political systems with an emphasis on utilizing data science to analyze public opinion and civic engagement trends. After Barnard, Christine honed her investigative reporting and multimedia production skills at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.