Meet Christina Essig

Background

Christina grew up in the Alexandria, MN area. After attending college she settled into life in Glenwood with her significant other. Their family has grown over the years to include two young ladies and one young man as well as six furry family members. In her spare time Christina enjoys helping people, gardening, reading, and spending time with family and her pets.

On Career Changes

After graduating from Jefferson Senior High School she attended Alexandria Technical and Community College. She graduated with an AAS degree in office information systems specialist. After college she worked at Alexandria Hearing Centers, Minnewaska school district as a paraprofessional, in many areas of customer service within the community. Most recently she was hired at Legacy Hearing Centers as an audiologic assistant and has recently started training to become a certified hearing instrument dispenser. She is excited to come into work each day and is enjoying her days at Legacy Hearing Centers.

Why hearing?

Growing up in a household with family members who experienced hearing loss gave Christina a jump start on having an appreciation for good hearing. She learned at an early age to annunciate so that those in her home could easily understand her. One of her children was born prematurely and has a hearing loss as a result. Over the years and throughout other careers she has found that her passion for helping people with hearing was driving her toward a new goal – becoming a hearing instrument specialist. She looks forward to getting to know her patients and helping them with strengthening communication with family and friends. As we say here… she loves connecting generations with conversations.