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Executive Director | Windham Regional Commission
Chris is Executive Director of the Windham Regional Commission based in Brattleboro, Vermont, which serves 27 towns in southeastern Vermont. He is the lead on emergency planning and disaster response/recovery, as well as conservation, for the state’s 11 RPCs, and Chair of the CT River Watershed Partnership. He was previously Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Graduate Program Coordinator at Mississippi State University; Deputy Director of Planning and Zoning for Calvert County, Maryland; Deputy Commissioner of Planning for Orange County, New York; Federal Policy Coordinator for the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture; founder and Executive Director of the Baton Rouge Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance; and a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC. Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Public Policy and Administration from Mississippi State University, and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University.
