Christine Koronides is a communications, public affairs, and policy expert with years of political experience and a track record of gaining outsized influence for her corporate, trade association, nonprofit, and advocacy clients and campaigns. Christine brings together White House, Federal Agency, local government, nonprofit and campaign experience with tactical expertise in building brands, raising awareness, mobilizing grassroots and grasstops advocates, gaining media coverage, producing events, managing crisis situations and creating communications and policy strategy.
Christine has helped start and grow nonprofits that impact advocacy and politics across issue areas, secured bipartisan legislation, influenced regulations, developed new programs, and secured financing. She has deep experience in economic policy, U.S. manufacturing, financial services, housing, transportation, environment and energy policy, education, healthcare and foreign policy. Throughout her career, she has worked to effectively build support for policy change across divides in Washington and communities.
Christine previously led federal affairs for the City of Chicago, where she helped secure federal funding for infrastructure, manufacturing, and workforce projects. Christine served in the Obama White House at the National Economic Council as Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for Small Business Policy and as Policy Advisor at the U.S. Small Business Administration, where she led small business economic recovery policy initiatives following the Great Recession.
Earlier in her career, Christine led the Environmental Entrepreneurs program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, changing the national conversation around the environment and the economy through engaging the business community to advocate for national and state-based policies that encouraged both economic growth and environmental protection. Christine started her career with the TCC Group as a strategy consultant to nonprofits, foundations and corporate community involvement programs.
Christine is a graduate of Smith College and holds a Master’s degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley.