Chris is Executive Director of the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP) administrative team, coordinating services for students attending college in New Jersey prisons and connecting them to college in community. He is a graduate of both Rutgers College and Rutgers Graduate School of Education where he earned a Master's Degree in Educational Administration. Prior to developing the transitional supports for formerly incarcerated students at Rutgers University (now known and the Rutgers Mountainview Communities),  Chris was the Director of the federally funded TRIO Student Support Services program for Rutgers New Brunswick. There he managed all aspects of academic and personal support services for low-income, first-generation college students. He has served at Rutgers since 1999 in a wide variety of other roles as well, including: tech support; network administrator; student adviser; residence counselor; and a course instructor for various programs and departments.