A former anti-corruption lawyer in the United States and a first-class graduate from Sorbonne university, Cristini has returned to Italy after 8 years of studying and working abroad between Paris, Brussels, and New York. She is a geopolitical analyst, war reporter and writer.

Cristini has reported freelance from Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict, focusing mainly on military and politico-diplomatic issues. In particular, she covered the shelling and civilian life in Kharkiv in March 2022, the battles in Donbas in Sjevjerodonec’k in April and May of the same year and in Bakhmut in February-March 2023. She also conducted wide-ranging geopolitical interviews with top Ukrainian government officials as well as with top diplomatic, military, and expert leaders for Limes, the Italian Journal of Geopolitics.

In October 2023 she went to Israel and Palestine for over a month to report on the war in the Middle East, writing for newspapers such as Il Messaggero and The Huffington Post. Her reporting from the warfield in Ukraine and the Middle East has been featured on radio, TV, and web broadcasts for La7, Rai, Mediaset, and GEDI, and she keeps her Instagram community constantly updated.

In 2023, she published her first book for Piemme entitled Geopolitica. Capire il mondo in guerra. [Geopolitics: Understanding the World at War] with a foreword by Lucio Caracciolo, in a combination of geopolitical war analysis with journalistic fieldwork; the book was presented at the Library of the Chamber of Deputies under the auspices of the Presidency. She is currently in bookstores with her latest book, published by Giunti in collaboration with the Italian Navy, on the first deployment of the Italian Aircraft Carrier Group in the Indo-Pacific, which she followed for part of its journey through the South China Sea aboard the aircraft carrier Cavour in September 2024.

Author and voice of the podcast “Il Grande Gioco” [The Great Game] and author of the weekly geopolitical newsletter “Extrema Ratio”, she frequently lectures at universities, companies, and cultural festivals throughout Italy and is a regular guest on national television, commenting on international current affairs.

In June 2025 she won the special award “Opening New Ways of Journalism” as part of the Ischia International Journalism Award, one of the most prestigious Italian recognitions dedicated to excellence in the field of journalism “for her ability to convey complex international current affairs with clarity, rigor, and depth, making geopolitical issues -often reserved for a specialist audience- accessible to the general public”.