Christian Dorsey | |
|---|---|
 Dorsey in 2023 | |
| Member of the Arlington County Board | |
| In office January 2016 –December 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence(s) | Arlington County, Virginia |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University |
| Profession | Politician |
Christian Dorsey is an American politician in Arlington County, Virginia. He served on the Arlington County Board from 2016 to 2023.
Raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey, [1] Dorsey holds a B.S., International Relations from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. [2]
Dorsey joined the Economic Policy Institute in 2008. Dorsey worked to build awareness of economic policy matters on a grassroots level with a goal of educating and mobilizing both middle class and disenfranchised communities for equally shared prosperity. [3]
Dorsey also served as the executive director of the Bonder and Amanda Johnson Community Development Corporation, and as executive director for The Reading Connection, a Northern Virginia-based non-profit organization that provides literacy programs for children. [4]
In November 2015, Dorsey was first elected to the Arlington County Board for its 2016 term. He served as vice-chair in 2018, and as chair in 2019; and again as vice-chair in 2022 and as chair in 2023 until his resignation from the Board on December 31, 2023. [5]
On October 16, 2019, Dorsey declared personal bankruptcy before being re-elected to the Arlington County Board in November. [6] Running largely unopposed and not required to disclose the filing, Dorsey did not notify the public of his bankruptcy. He later clarified that he "should have had a conversation with the community, no matter how difficult." [6] In November 2019, Dorsey was stripped of his chairmanship of the Washington Metro's Finance Committee for failing to disclose a $10,000 donation from Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 for four months. In January 2020, Dorsey falsely stated he had already returned the donation. [6] In February, Dorsey wrote a reimbursement check that remained uncashed for 5 months, apparently lost in the mail. On July 30, 2020, Dorsey reimbursed the donation and submitted a picture of a cashier's check to various news outlets. [7] In December 2020, a judge dismissed Dorsey's bankruptcy case under a fraud statute, finding that Dorsey had made an overt misrepresentation to the court. [8]
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