Christopher  serves as general counsel for Young America’s Foundation.

Most recently, Chris was a partner at the law firm Nelson Madden Black, serving religious causes and clients exclusively and advocating for religious liberty. Prior to that, Chris served as general counsel for the nation’s premier conservative public policy research and educational institute, The Heritage Foundation, advising on and overseeing all legal, regulatory, and compliance matters for Heritage and its related organizations, and was the legal advisor and primary staff liaison to Heritage’s Board of Trustees.

Previously, Chris served as in-house associate counsel for Strayer University. He also served as a senior attorney at the United States Commission on Civil Rights, advancing its leadership’s color-blind, race-neutral vision of civil rights at the time, as an attorney at the Office for Civil Rights in the United States Department of Education, and as an attorney at Defenders of Property Rights, practicing constitutional and appellate litigation with a nonprofit, public interest legal foundation dedicated to protecting the rights of property owners.

Chris graduated cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he helped to found a monthly student conservative newspaper. He earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as president of the student chapter of the Federalist Society. He lives with this family in Lorton, Virginia.