Christine Gralow is a journalist and educator.

After graduating from U.C. Berkeley with a master’s degree in journalism and completing a summer fellowship with Bloomberg News in Singapore, Christine Gralow made a career detour and became a special education teacher. While she continued to publish articles periodically, her main career for 20 years was in special education, with a primary focus on autism. Christine taught in New York City, Colorado, and Hawai’i, and she completed a year-long fellowship in Baltimore with the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education.

While teaching in the South Bronx, Christine ran a humorous teacher blog that was recognized as a Yahoo! blog of the day. This led to an invitation to write four articles for The New York Times on autism and education. Her piece, “Becoming an Autism Educator” was especially popular.

In Hawai’i, Christine started a community news website, Meanwhile in Hawai’i, with the intention of publishing under-reported stories of interest to the Hawaiian community. Originally meant to be a side project, her research into an alleged cult in her small beach town led to a harrowing investigation into financial and political corruption surrounding her then local congresswoman, current U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Christine’s independent 2017 investigative series on the Science of Identity cult - in which Gabbard was born, raised, and remains - has been repeatedly acknowledged in national press.

Since Gabbard’s nomination and confirmation as U.S. spy chief there has been strong renewed interest in Gralow’s work. In December 2024, she wrote a two-part series for SpyTalk, a publication geared toward the intelligence community. In late January 2025, a front page Wall Street Journal article detailed how Gabbard and Science of Identity hired a shady D.C. publicist to try to suppress a reporter’s work on the cult’s ties to global financial fraud. Christine was that reporter, and Meanwhile in Hawai’i was linked in the article.

Although she still privately consults as an autism specialist, Christine has recently decided that now is a crucial time in the U.S. to return to journalism full-time.