Christie worked as a summer
intern for Congressman
Tom Campbell. At the beginning of his career, he served as counsel to Senator
George Allen of
Virginia and as senior advisor to former
House Budget Committee Chairman and future
Governor of Ohio John Kasich. He began working at the
White House in 2001, as deputy assistant to Vice President
Dick Cheney for domestic policy, advising him on health care, budget, tax and other policy areas. Later that year, he was elected to the
Council on Foreign Relations. In 2002, he joined the staff of the President, serving as a Special Assistant to
George W. Bush until 2004. Christie was selected by Bush to lead an American delegation to an international conference on volunteerism and civic engagement hosted by Prime Minister
Tony Blair in
London. After leaving the
Bush administration, Christie began serving as an adjunct professor of Strategic Advocacy at the
George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. He also teaches a course on strategic advocacy at his alma mater,
Haverford College, where he has been appointed a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science. He has authored three books:
Black in the White House,
Acting White: The Curious History of a Racial Slur and
Blackwards: How Black Leadership is Returning America to the Days of Separate But Equal. He is an occasional guest on
CNN,
MSNBC and the
BBC News programme
Beyond 100 Days. Christie is additionally a panelist on
National Public Radio. He was critical of the
Republican National Committee's activities under Chairman
Michael Steele, telling
Ed Schultz of
MSNBC on his show in April 2010 that he was "not happy about the leadership that we have seen out of the Republican National Committee in the last 16 to 18 months. I'm not happy about it. ... The leadership starts at the top, and I think that Chairman Michael Steele is on a very short leash, he has a very, very narrow opportunity to show that he can raise the money, that he can be a strong leader for the party. Otherwise, I think perhaps the clock in the back of his head in his office might be ticking". ==Bibliography==