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Kristina Callaghan is Quantum Education & Workforce Development Program Manager at Quantum Machines, where she builds industry-academia partnerships that give students hands-on experience with real quantum hardware before they graduate. She has led curriculum design across multiple levels — from a master’s-level quantum engineering course at the University of Oregon, to technician training at Central New Mexico Community College’s Quantum Learning Lab, to a workshop for City Colleges of Chicago students at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Her work focuses on building the pipeline of quantum technicians and engineers the industry will need as quantum computing moves from research labs into commercial deployment.