Christina Ray Stanton

Christina Ray Stanton’s first book, Out of the Shadow of 9/11: An Inspiring Tale of Escape and Transformation, debuted in 2019 and won the Bronze IPPY award and the Silver IBPA Benjamin Franklin award in the Memoir category. Her 9/11 articles have appeared in over fifty national and international publications, including the Saturday Evening Post, New York Daily News, and the Star Ledger, and in countries such as Bangladesh, South Africa, and Brazil. A licensed New York City tour guide since 1995, Christina took thousands of tourists through the original World Trade Center complex and up to its observatory, and now she specializes in tours of the 9/11 Memorial. She speaks about 9/11 regularly, and has spoken in front of live audiences from Tokyo to Madagascar. Together with her husband Brian, she founded Loving All Nations, an organization that helps the poor and vulnerable internationally. Christina worked for over a decade as the short-term missions director at Redeemer Presbyterian (Founder, Timothy Keller), and her husband has worked as Redeemer’s CFO for twenty-three years.