Christine Vinion serves as Lake to River’s Director of Finance, overseeing the organization’s financial operations, budgeting and reporting to support sound fiscal management across the four-county region. She brings almost a decade of government accounting experience to the role, with a background built on strong internal controls, audit readiness and full-charge financial operations.
Christine most recently served as business manager for Kent State University’s Department of Biological Sciences, where she managed departmental budgets, expense reimbursements and foundation funding requests. Prior to that, she spent six years as a fiscal officer in the library sector, first with McKinley Memorial Library in Niles and then with Northeast Ohio Regional Library System, a subsidiary of the State Library of Ohio providing support to libraries within the 22 counties of Northeast Ohio, where she managed government cash basis fund accounting, annual budgeting and financial reporting to boards of trustees and state and county auditors.
Earlier in her career, she held finance and accounting roles supporting manufacturing and industrial operations across the Mahoning Valley.
Christine, a Youngstown resident, holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration with a concentration in accounting and a Bachelor of Science in applied science from Youngstown State University.
