Creating high-impact, award-winning communications campaigns for corporate and nonprofit clients is Chris Lisi’s professional signature. For more than a decade, she has helped shape the public relations, marketing, and political communications agendas of world-class organizations. Depth of experience in public policy and healthcare enables her quickly to identify opportunities to reach and influence her clients’ critical audiences and stakeholders. Bridging the private and public sectors, Lisi effectively applies her associations and finely tuned insights as a Washington insider to deliver consistent, measurable successes.

She served as a Vice President for The Glover Park Group’s Public Affairs division, crafting a D.C.-focused, brand-building strategy for a leading health technology company; reputation management for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company; executive positioning for a national health insurer; and a public affairs-focused crisis communications campaign for a blue-chip technology company. As Communications Strategy Director at AARP, she directed all the association’s healthcare public policy communications, managing a multimillion-dollar communications budget that supported AARP’s election-related health initiatives, including national paid and earned communications activities; stakeholder outreach to the organization’s 38 million members and partners; and message management via AARP’s 53 offices.

During her tenure as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Communications for United States Senator Mark Dayton (D-MN), she was elected to the Board of Directors of the Senate Press Secretaries Association. Before joining Senator Dayton’s staff, Lisi was a Managing Supervisor at Fleishman-Hillard, where she lent reputation management expertise to renowned entities, such as Yahoo!, AARP, National Public Radio, and the American Red Cross.

Prior to Fleishman-Hillard, Lisi was Director of Media Relations for Voter.com and served as a senior associate at Squier Knapp Dunn, one of America’s leading political media consulting firms. During President Clinton’s Administration, she served at the White House as special assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore.

Lisi is a member of the National Press Club and an Associate Member of American Women in Radio and Television. She is a graduate of Rutgers University, where she earned a B.A. in political science and history, and is currently completing her master's degree in social and public policy at Georgetown University. Lisi is an adjunct professor at George Washington University and frequently lectures for Michigan State University’s Semester Study Program in Washington, D.C. She lives in Washington with her husband, Vince Frillici, and their daughter, Willa.