Christina Crook is a pioneer and leading voice in the field of digital well-being.
She is the award-winning author of The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World, the harbinger of the global #JOMO movement, and Good Burdens: How to Live Joyfully in a Digital Age.
Christina regularly shares her insights about technology and our daily lives in international media including The New York Times, Psychology Today, and Harper's Bazaar. Christina is also the creator and host of the JOMO(cast) podcast where she interviews mindful tech leaders embracing the joy of missing out to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Christina was listed as a changemaker in All Tech is Human's 2020 Responsible Guide to Tech, co-presented by NYU's Center for Policy. (That's her on the cover with pink hair.) She leads Navigate, an action-oriented digital well-being program serving creative leaders (at Oxford, Adobe, Gimlet Media, Shopify, and more) who want to navigate the digital world on their own terms.
Her writing has appeared in Utne Reader, CBC.ca, Christianity Today, UPPERCASE magazine, the Literary Review of Canada, and Religious New Service.
Crook has worked for some of Canada’s most recognized media organizations, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Rogers Digital Media. She is a graduate of the Simon Fraser University School of Communication and her TEDx talk, “Letting Go of Technology: Pursuing a People-focused Future,” was presented as part of the 2013 Global TEDWomen conference.
Christina sits on the board of Second Nature Journal, the publication of the International Institute of the Study of Technology and Christianity, and is a member of the Media Ecology Association.
She and her family live in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood where they host their annual neighbourhood pumpkin carving party.