Christina "Chrissy" Richey is an American planetary scientist and astrophysicist working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

Richey is a project staff scientist for the Europa Clipper mission and is a research technologist in the Astrophysics and Space Sciences Section.

[12] They completed their master's (2007) and PhD (2011) in physics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where they did laboratory investigations related to both the icy moons of the outer solar system and the interstellar medium.

[4] OSIRIS-REx launched in 2016 and will travel to a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu and bring back a returned sample to Earth for study.

[6][7] Richey was the chair of the American Astronomical Society's Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy[10] from 2015 to 2017 and was the co-chair of the Division for Planetary Sciences' Subcommittee on Professional Climate and Culture.