[6][7] Her work has gained national attention from such publications as Bon Appétit, Gourmet, The New York Times, Southern Living, Wall Street Journal, and Garden & Gun.
[11][12] Christensen is the author of two cookbooks, Poole's: Recipes and Stories from a Modern Diner (2016),[13] and It's Always Freezer Season, co-authored with her wife, Kaitlyn Goalen (2021).
[23] Christensen has served as a board member of the Frankie Lemmon Foundation and is a co-chair of its annual fundraising event, Triangle Wine Experience.
[26] She is also on the board for the Dix Park Conservancy and Shepherd's Table Soup Kitchen, which serves 200 to 300 meals daily to downtown Raleigh's food-insecure population.
[27][28] She is also an active member of the Southern Foodways Alliance and founded its biannual event Stir the Pot, in which she hosts visiting chefs in Raleigh to raise funds for the SFA's documentary initiatives.