Professional Experience

As a former Registered Dietitian, Kristina views the law as a tool to improve public health. In the fall of 2025, Kristina served as a legal extern with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Public Health Law Services, where she engaged in legal epidemiology work, including performing a legal scan of all state and local jurisdictions for reporting requirements for diseases of public health importance. Prior to that, Kristina was a legal intern on the University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic team charged with preparing a submission to the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent detailing effects of laws and policies on food access for Black communities in Miami-Dade County. She is looking forward to supporting veterans’ wellbeing by securing disability benefits.

Publications & Speaking Engagements

Kristina Bergman & Denisse Córdova Montes, Adopting an International Human Rights Approach in the U.S. to Combat Sizeism and Related Racism and Sexism in Healthcare, Public Health Efforts, and Food Advertising Policy, 21 Journal of Food Law & Policy 1, (2025).

Tamar Ezer, Denisse Córdova Montes, Abigail Fleming, Lily Arslanian, Kristina Bergman, et al., Town Hall on the Sustainable Dev. Goals and Racial Justice in MDC, 15 U. MIA Race & Social Justice Law Rev. 1 (2025).