Ronald Irvin Christie (born August 7, 1969) is an American government relations expert and

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, who has also worked as a member of former

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Dick Cheney's staff. He is the author of two books, and an occasional guest on various cable news programs. He serves as an adjunct professor at

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, and

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. He is currently the CEO of Christie Strategies, a communications and issue management firm that he founded in

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Early life

Christie is a native of

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. Christie is a graduate of Palo Alto Senior High School. He received a

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degree from

and a

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degree from the George Washington University National Law Center.

Career

Christie worked as a summer

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for Congressman Tom Campbell. At the beginning of his career, he served as counsel to Senator

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and as senior advisor to former

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Chairman and future

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. He began working at the

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in 2001, as deputy assistant to Vice President

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for domestic policy, advising him on health care, budget, tax and other policy areas. Later that year, he was elected to the

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. In 2002, he joined the staff of the President, serving as a Special Assistant to

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until 2004. Christie was selected by Bush to lead an American delegation to an international conference on volunteerism and civic engagement hosted by Prime Minister

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. After leaving the Bush administration, Christie began serving as an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Advocacy at the

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. He also teaches a course on strategic advocacy at his alma mater,

, where he has been appointed a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science. He has authored three books: ''Black in the White House'', ''Acting White: The Curious History of a Racial Slur'' and ''Blackwards: How Black Leadership is Returning America to the Days of Separate But Equal''. He is an occasional guest on

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and the

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programme ''

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''. Christie is additionally a panelist on

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. He was critical of the Republican National Committee's activities under Chairman

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, telling

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on his show in April 2010 that he was "not happy about the leadership that we have seen out of the Republican National Committee in the last 16 to 18 months. I'm not happy about it. ... The leadership starts at the top, and I think that Chairman Michael Steele is on a very short leash, he has a very, very narrow opportunity to show that he can raise the money, that he can be a strong leader for the party. Otherwise, I think perhaps the clock in the back of his head in his office might be ticking".

Bibliography

* ''Black in the White House: Life Inside George W. Bush's West Wing'' (Nelson Current, 2006) * ''Acting White: The Curious History of a Racial Slur'' (St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books, 2010) * ''Blackwards: How Black Leadership Is Returning America to the Days of Separate but Equal'' (St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books, 2012)

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