Christine Clayburg

Christine Clayburg was born in Paso Robles War Memorial hospital to a Vietnam combat medic and a homemaker. Her mother became school cafeteria employee of the year and supported the family after her father was disabled. She is the eldest of 5 daughters.

Her first big break as a director came from recruiting her little sisters as actors and crew to make picture book stories using disposable Kodak film cameras. She studied the performing arts rigorously in church, high school, and community college and landed her first student film at Robin Williams Alma Mater, Allan Hancock College. A college advisor heard her sing at a local opera cafe, and set up a unique internship for her in the KCRA weather department in Sacramento.

Since then, she has hosted, anchored, forecast and headlined newscasts across the nation including KABC in Los Angeles, WCCO in Minneapolis, WHDH in Boston and KHQ in Spokane, WA where she also became known as an audio book reader for Books in Motion. She was quickly nominated for an Emmy for her work as a Meteorologist in Minnesota and also named "Boston's Best Meteorologist" by Improper Bostonian magazine. Her live severe weather coverage and severe weather programming garnered several station Emmy Awards and her work as host of "The Snow Snow" in Minnesota led to a Hirsch Broadcasting award for Sports programming in it's first season.

On stage she has played Mary Bailey in the musical "It's a Wonderful Life," Sarah in Sondheim's "Company," Gloria Upson in "Mame," Lydia in "The Vampyre," and Grace Bradley in "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever." She also performed as an ingenue at a regional melodrama on the California Central Coast and has spoken for many organizations across the country advocating for women in STEM.

A military veteran with a legacy of service that dates back continuously to the American Revolution, Christine flew with the Air National Guard with units in Minnesota and California as a C-130 Hercules Loadmaster, instructor and Aerial Firefighter. She is a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as many peacetime and readiness airlift missions around the globe.

Before her military service, she climbed numerous North and South American peaks as high as 22,842', kayaked solo for a week through the Apostle Islands on frigid Lake Superior, bicycled from San Francisco to Los Angeles along the Pacific Coast Highway, completed Olympic length triathlons and traversed the Sierra Nevada alone.

She holds a B.S. in GeoScience and an MFA in TV and Film Screenwriting.