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American politician
Christian Dorsey
Dorsey in 2023
Member of the Arlington County Board
In office
January 2016 – December 2023
Personal details
BornAtlantic City, New Jersey
Political partyDemocratic
Residence(s)Arlington County, Virginia
Alma materGeorgetown University
ProfessionPolitician

Christian Dorsey is an American politician in Arlington County, Virginia. He served on the Arlington County Board from 2016 to 2023.

Education

Raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dorsey holds a B.S., International Relations from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Career

Dorsey joined the Economic Policy Institute in 2008. Dorsey worked to build awareness of economic policy matters on a grassroots level with a goal of educating and mobilizing both middle class and disenfranchised communities for equally shared prosperity.

Dorsey also served as the executive director of the Bonder and Amanda Johnson Community Development Corporation, and as executive director for The Reading Connection, a Northern Virginia-based non-profit organization that provides literacy programs for children.

In November 2015, Dorsey was first elected to the Arlington County Board for its 2016 term. He served as vice-chair in 2018, and as chair in 2019; and again as vice-chair in 2022 and as chair in 2023 until his resignation from the Board on December 31, 2023.

On October 16, 2019, Dorsey declared personal bankruptcy before being re-elected to the Arlington County Board in November. Running largely unopposed and not required to disclose the filing, Dorsey did not notify the public of his bankruptcy. He later clarified that he "should have had a conversation with the community, no matter how difficult." In November 2019, Dorsey was stripped of his chairmanship of the Washington Metro's Finance Committee for failing to disclose a $10,000 donation from Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 for four months. In January 2020, Dorsey falsely stated he had already returned the donation. In February, Dorsey wrote a reimbursement check that remained uncashed for 5 months, apparently lost in the mail. On July 30, 2020, Dorsey reimbursed the donation and submitted a picture of a cashier's check to various news outlets. In December 2020, a judge dismissed Dorsey's bankruptcy case under a fraud statute, finding that Dorsey had made an overt misrepresentation to the court.

References

  1. "Zimmerman Wins Democratic Primary", Connection Newspapers, May 14, 2002. Accessed December 21, 2024. "Zimmerman, a six-year veteran of the board now serving as chair, won out over a first-time challenger, political newcomer Christian Dorsey.... Dorsey, 30, grew up in Atlantic City, N.J., moving to the Washington area to attend Georgetown University."
  2. Christian Dorsey, Economic Policy Institute. Accessed December 21, 2024. "Education: B.S., International Relations, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service"
  3. "Christian Dorsey's brief bio at Economic Policy Institute Website". Archived from the original on 2011-08-24. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
  4. Miles, Vernon (October 7, 2015). "Arlington: Fight for the Neighborhoods". The Arlington Connection. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  5. "County Board Members, 1932–Present". Arlington County Government. Retrieved 2024-12-07.
  6. ^ Patricia Sullivan (2020-07-23). "A politician's return of a $10,000 donation was never cashed. The transit union says it lost the check". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  7. "Dorsey's Check Saga May Finally be over". 31 July 2020.
  8. "Arlington official fraudulently misled court in bankruptcy, judge rules". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-09-13.

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