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Chris Pack, BSEProgram Director
Since 1995, Chris has been the Program Director at Community Matters. He has designed and facilitated a wide range of gatherings, from 10-person strategic planning sessions and community partnership meetings to 250-person community-wide summits. He has co-developed the nationally recognized Safe School Ambassadors program, and cultivated a team of twenty trainers who deliver the program nationwide. He has also developed and delivered trainings in collaboration, team skills, community outreach, developmental assets, and other dimensions of positive youth development. Chris is co-author of Safe School Ambassadors: Harnessing Student Power to Stop Bullying and Violence published by Jossey-Bass in April, 2008. He has also presented at many regional and national conferences, including the National Dropout Prevention Conference, California League of Middle Schools, and the Association for Experiential Education. While accompanying his wife on a teaching exchange to Australia, he worked with training firms in several Pacific Rim countries. He also co-founded a successful experiential training and consulting firm, and has designed and built challenge (ropes) courses throughout the world. Chris is an Eagle Scout, National Merit Scholar, and graduate of Princeton University, where he earned an engineering degree with an emphasis on the role of technology in human affairs, and coordinated the campus peer counseling program. His commitment to community building and youth development has been deepened by the arrival of his daughter in 1998 and son in 2003. |
Chris Pack draws upon more than 25 years of training and facilitation experience throughout the United States, and abroad. He has worked with educators and students from schools and colleges, community coalitions and non-profit service organizations, local and multinational businesses, and regional and national government agencies.