Christopher Malagisi - Christopher Malagisi is President of the Young Conservatives Coalition (YCC) – a DC-based young professional conservative advocacy and networking organization dedicated to organzing the next generation of the conservative movement by fostering young adult activism and public policy awareness.
He is also the Director of Political Training at The Leadership Institute in Arlington, VA – a national conservative political training organization. He is responsible for training and organizing the Institute’s political, online activism, fundraising, and career trainings and has trained over 4,500 candidates, campaign staffers, activists, and students.
Malagisi is also a Politicial Science Adjunct Professor at American University (DC) teaching two courses titled The Modern Conservative Movement in US Politics: 1945-Present and Campaigns & Political Activism. He is also a frequent trainer and guest lecturer at numerous conferences and universities across the country and overseas.
Malagisi was recently awarded the 2009 Rising Star Award from Campaigns & Elections Politics Magazine. He has worked on three US presidential campaigns (Bush ‘04, Fred Thompson ‘07, McCain ‘08) and a high-profile US Senate campaign (George Allen ‘06). He has previously worked at the International Republican Institute (traveling to Afghanistan) and on Capitol Hill.
Malagisi has been published in numerous print and online publications, has been a political analyst on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and CSPAN, and publishes a column at The Daily Caller and Parcbench. He is presently the Republican Party of Virginia’s 8th Congressional District Vice Chairman, received a Masters of Public Administration from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Affairs, received a B.A. in Political Science from American University, has worked and traveled to over 35 countries, and has recorded two original music piano albums.