User Profile for Chris Rabb (Chris Rabb)

Bio: Chris Rabb is a consultant, social commentator, and "Netroots" activist.

Cmrheadshot2 Chris has been covered by or featured on C-SPAN, Fox News, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, and various other outlets.

He was one of fewer than 40 credentialed bloggers at the 2004 Democratic Convention, blogging on-site for Afro-Netizen, which he founded in 1999.

Since 2000, he has been a principal at Visceral Ventures LLC, a consultancy focusing on three overlapping areas: interactive communications/new media strategy, organizational dynamics and entrepreneurial coaching. His professional niche centers on effective means of targeting and engaging various constituencies, including: voters, consumers, and other groups within urban African-American communities.

A former stand-up comedian and improv comedy performer, Chris has spoken at conferences, universities, and other venues across the U.S., and has written for such publications as The Nation, Colorlines, and Savoy Magazine.

He is a graduate of Yale College and also earned an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. Chris is a 2001 American Marshall Memorial Fellow, and was elected as a Democratic Committeeman in May 2006, serving his Mt. Airy neighborhood of northwest Philadelphia. A native of Chicago, he is the proud husband of Professor Imani Perry, and father to two sons, Freeman Diallo and Issa.

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