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Chris Gates is President of the National Civic League. In this position he serves as the chief executive of NCL, the nation's oldest organization advocating for the issues of community and democracy. NCL was founded in 1894 by civic reformers including Teddy Roosevelt and Louis Brandeis. Prior to being named President in 1995, Mr. Gates was Vice President of the National Civic League for eight years. Gates speaks extensively around the country, and around the world, on topics including the state of America's democracy, the interaction between citizens and government and innovations in community problem solving. He has also regularly lectured in a variety of academic institutions, including the University of Colorado's Graduate School of Public Affairs, and the State and Local Government Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and is a regular instructor in leadership training programs across the country. In addition, Gates provides technical assistance to communities undertaking strategic planning or visioning projects. Past projects have included Phoenix, Arizona; Indianapolis, Indiana; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Charlotte, North Carolina. Gates is also active in his own community of Denver, Colorado where he serves as the founding chairman of the Colorado Institute for Leadership Training. Gates serves on a variety of other boards including INDEPENDENT SECTOR, the Council for the Advancement of Citizenship, the California Center for Civic Renewal, and the Institute for the Regional Community. He is also co-chair of the Civic Practices Network and a co-chair of the Saguaro Seminar, a Harvard University project studying 'social capital'. Gates has a masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he studied the interaction between the public and private sectors, and an honors degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England where he studied political economics. He was also recently named a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Prior to his work at the National Civic League, Gates ran a successful consulting practice that worked with both corporations and communities to help them deal with issues of change. Prior to that, he served as Communications Director of the Piton Foundation and as an aide to then Colorado Governor Richard Lamm. Gates is politically active and has been involved in a variety of statewide and national political campaigns. |
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