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Chris is a consultant, writer, and public speaker focusing on the intersection of social identity, media, civic engagement and entrepreneurship. His forthcoming book is called Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity, to be released in Fall 2010 by Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Currently, Chris is a fellow with Demos, a visiting researcher at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a 2001 American Marshall Memorial Fellowship recipient, awarded by the German Marshall Fund of the U.S.

From 1993-1995, Chris worked in the U.S. Senate and the White House Conference on Small Business where he focused on policies and legislation that impacted small businesses. From 1995 through 2001, Chris worked at Stono Technologies, LLC, a technology-based product design firm which he co-founded in his native Chicago. Upon moving to Philadelphia, Chris ran a nationally recognized non-profit-based business incubator and later set up a consultancy specializing in organizational productivity services targeting small businesses, start-up ventures, non-profits and select political campaigns.

In 1999, Chris founded Afro-Netizen, a pioneering, e-mail-based news and information aggregator for African Americans nationwide that amassed over 10,000 subscribers within its first 18 months. Afro-Netizen has also been a member of The Media Consortium since 2006.

Chris is a graduate of Yale College and earned an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the boards of the Applied Research Center (Oakland, CA) and the Bread & Roses Community Fund (Philadelphia, PA). He is also on the national advisory board of VoiceMale Magazine and a member

In 2006, was elected as a Democratic Committeeperson in his neighborhood of Mt. Airy in Philadelphia where he lives with his wife, Princeton professor Imani Perry, and their two sons, Freeman Diallo and Issa.

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