Hi, my name is Christopher Whitaker and I’m running for the Board of Trustees in Skokie’s second district.

We live in challenging times and that means we need problem solvers on the village board. We need to protect our streets from ICE, end Skokie’s contract with Flock, and take care of our neighbors.

I’m running because we don’t live in normal times and we shouldn’t act like it. We need creative solutions and we need them now.

I’m a civic technologist with a hybrid background in public administration and product management, having served in both delivery and operations roles at the Department of Defense, the United States Digital Service, and Code for America, and I’m the co-founder and executive director of the Alliance of Civic Technologists. I’m a veteran of the US Army, having as served a mechanized infantry in Iraq. I graduated from DePaul University with a Masters in Public Administration.