Christopher Malagisi is Director of Political Training at The Leadership Institute – a national conservative political training organization.  He is also President of the Young Conservatives Coalition (YCC) – a DC-based, young professional conservative leadership and networking organization dedicated to organzing the next generation of the conservative movement.  Malagisi is also a political science Adjunct Professor at American University teaching two courses titled "The Modern Conservative Movement in US Politics: 1945-Present" and "Campaigns & Political Activism," earning him a 2010 Pollie Award for political education. 

Malagisi was also awarded the 2009 Rising Star Award from Campaigns & Elections Politics Magazine for significant achievements in national politics and is currently a National Review Institute Washington Fellow.

Previously, he worked on three US presidential campaigns, a high-profile US Senate campaign, the International Republican Institute (travelling to Afghanistan), Capitol Hill, and the College Republican National Committee.  He is a published op-ed writer and has been a political analyst on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and CSPAN.  He is orginally from Buffalo, NY, received a Masters of Public Administration (M.P.A.) from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, a B.A. in Political Science from American University, is presently an officer with the Republican Party of Virginia (8th Dist.), has worked/studied in 36 countries and recorded two original music piano albums.