Ron Christie is Founder and CEO of Christie Strategies LLC, a communications and issues management firm in Washington, D.C. He presently on Christie is Founder and CEO of Christie Strategies LLC, a full-service communications and issues management firm in the Washington, D.C area.  

A native of Palo Alto, California, he received his B.A. from Haverford College and his J.D. from the George Washington University National Law Center. Christie has served as an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Advocacy at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. He has also taught a course on strategic advocacy at his alma mater, Haverford College, where he was appointed a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science in 2009 and 2011. Also an author, Christie has published two books (Black in the White House/Acting White: The Curious History of a Racial Slur) and will publish a new title examining the role of race and politics in the era of Obama in September 2012 with St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books.