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Chris Battle
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Chris Battle is a Partner at Adfero Group. Chris serves as the lead communications strategist to many of Adfero’s clients and also manages the firm’s Homeland Security Strategic Communications Practice. Chris brings extensive expertise as a veteran of the public affairs world, with proven experience in media relations, crisis communications, issue advocacy and political campaigns. Chris specializes in planning and executing customized communications strategies for clients that merge traditional public relations tactics with the latest new media tools.
Chris provides strategic counsel to Fortune 200 corporations, top government agencies, major trade associations and non-profit organizations. A representative sample of Chris’s clients includes the Department of Homeland Security, American Airlines Cargo, Microsoft Corporation, Harris Corporation, Carbon Motors Corporation, the National Association of Manufacturers, and PhRMA.
Before joining Adfero, Chris served as an advisor during the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and was later appointed Director of Public Affairs for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After helping to reorganize ICE’s public affairs shop, Chris became the agency’s Chief of Staff, where he integrated public affairs, public outreach and legislative campaigns to promote the ICE’s top immigration and border security priorities.
Prior to his service at DHS, Chris served as Director of Congressional and Public Affairs for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. In this capacity, he oversaw the public relations, congressional relations, grassroots outreach and multimedia offices for the law enforcement agency.
Chris also spent a number of years on Capitol Hill as a Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff and Communications Director, and has worked as a political strategist and campaign manager for congressional and statewide political campaigns.
Chris began his career as a journalist and has won awards for his political and editorial writing. Chris earned a B.A. in English and an M.A. in American history, both from the University of Arkansas.
Chris lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with wife Dena and their daughters, Kate and Josie.
