Cristina Roberts with her daughter Vickie at the 2016 Antlers holiday party.
The Antlers has always been proud of its housekeeping team. When a new addition to the building was added in 2000, the new board room was dedicated to long-time executive housekeeper Millie Barela. Executive housekeeper is an important position. Keeping rooms spotless for guests alone is a big task and on top of that this team takes it to an even higher level with the personalized responses to special requests. Prior to a guest’s arrival they will ensure that a dog bed is waiting for furry pets. They stock and deliver cribs and high chairs. They even keep specialty appliances on hand to make sure that guests have what they need to feel at home.
Rob LeVine hired Cristina Roberts for this all-important job of executive housekeeper and leading this department in 2014. Cristina has elevated the department in many ways from finding cost savings to personalizing service. But most important to her is how she has been able to help the members of her team personally. From helping individual housekeepers with bills and insurance, Cristina makes it a point to support them all. She has been an integral part of encouraging the housekeepers in their english lessons, as well as starting a book club.
Cristina comes from a family of five siblings who all grew up in Ecuador. Her parents recently celebrated forty-five years of marriage. Family and religion are important to her. Cristina is a proud mom of a sixteen year old daughter, Vickie, who just earned her driver’s permit. And, she is aunt to seven nieces and nephews whom she enjoys spoiling with ice cream and chocolate.
Cristina left Ecuador in March 2006 for New York. Then in 2011 she moved to Colorado to be of help to her sister and Godson.
Cristina has taught as a teacher in a preschool, worked as a medical interpreter, been a baker and did stone gardening. But her real passion is helping people. Not only does she do that through her job at the Antlers but she also volunteers for several community organizations — teaching at her church, as an interpreter for Eagle County Courts, working with the literacy project at the Avon Library and coordinating donations for community organizations such as Bright Future Foundation and CASA. She is currently working on her certification to be a victim’s advocate with the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office.
We can’t say enough about how fortunate we are to have Cristina as a leader here at the Antlers.
Cristina with her daughter, one of her nieces and associate executive housekeeper, Gladys.
