Christina "Christy" Gardner is a 41 year old retired Army veteran from Oxford, Maine. She was injured overseas in 2006 and spent nearly 5 rehabbing before was finally able to live on her own again and started participating in adaptive sports, thanks to her Service Dog Moxie. She’s been on the US Women’s Para Ice Hockey Team for 14 years and was an alternate for Tokyo 2020 in shot put and discus. She also represented the USA at the Para Surfing World Championships in 2020 and earned a silver medal at the Para Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile in 2023. Gardner trained service dogs and therapy dogs for ten years but wanted to grow that dream to help more Mainers in need. Mission Working Dogs was founded in July 2020 as a local non-profit to do just that. The organization serves to train service dogs and therapy dogs for the local community and has recently opened a new training center in Maine.