Christina Ochoa Instagram – Kainu’s FIRST cover! @greatishdane Gracias @athleisuremag for talking #STEM, acting and all the things I love! 💙 Photo @porterfiles Interview @shes.kimmie Linkin.bio for full article #Repost @athleisuremag Our Feb Issue cover story features actress, author, educator and marine biologist @ochoachristina @promisedlandabc @animalkingdomtnt @millionlittlethingsabc We loved chatting about her roles; how she takes on projects; juggling acting with marine biology; and how she uses her platform to teach students STEAM. On Animal Kingdom, she told us, “Craig and Renn are an interesting dynamic that I think was one of the most fun things to play with. @robboben_ and I talked about it all of the time. They are just meant to be together and they have no idea how! They act like they are going to explode or implode, you never know. I think that in the last season coming up soon, we get to see maybe what it’s like for them to really come together in a new way. Like for the first time, maybe not as opponents, but teammates.” We also chatted about he role as Veronica on Promised Land. She told us, “the thing about Veronica that I gravitated to the most from the get go, she was in this very male dominated environment – very muy mucho – her father, her brothers and siblings – everyone around her. Yet, she managed to tap into a very powerful position without having to emulate the men or compete with them on their turf and that was something very intriguing to me.”She noted, “this is such an important milestone in the journey for real diversity on Network TV and ABC [took] an entire Latin cast and infuse the show behind the camera with a lot of Latin crew… Human first, entertaining second.. Veronica in particular, is just one more version of diversity that I want to see.. So yes they’re all Latin but that’s #10 on their list when you describe them. There is diversity of thought..perspective..political opinions within this Latin family and you get all of that, what a beautiful thing. That’s a diversity no-one talks about.. very close to my heart. Heteradox thinking is the number 1 thing I want to to see in a group of characters all defined by this one common denominator.”