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Chris Verrill
Nonprofit Theatre Director · Broadcaster · Educator
About Chris Verrill
Chris Verrill is a nonprofit theatre director who takes pride in volunteering to making his community a better place to live. He’s done program production and marketing for performing arts, educational television, public radio, international schools and Silicon Valley start-ups. He’s a scuba diver, poker player, board game enthusiast and world traveler. And he’s learning to kayak.
Portfolio Skills:
Building a Strong Community Through Arts and Education.
Chris Verrill is a nonprofit theatre director who takes pride in working and volunteering in the arts and education to make his community a better place to live. Aside from a brief foray in Silicon Valley, he has spent his career doing non-profit work locally, nationally, and internationally.
In a quixotic attempt to do his small part to fight terrorism after September 11, he travelled on a mission to Afghanistan to build vocational education programs for women. He wrote Is For Good Men To Do Nothing, a book about volunteering for charitable organizations in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.
Volunteering on nonprofit boards has always been a part of Verrill’s purpose. He’s served on the board of directors of numerous different nonprofits or government agencies.
With the rancorous tumult in today’s politics, and with the dream of bringing people who disagree together so we can all move forward, he moderates the bipartisan political leadership group Independent Like Florida (www.independentlikeamerica.org). And here’s to hoping it plays a small part in positively returning common sense and civility back to the American discussion.
Why Did September 11 Happen?
Why did September 11 happen? What does the world think about America since then? While war raged in Iraq, Chris Verrill embarked on a travel adventure, from Afghanistan to Athens, Kuwait to Kathmandu, to answer those questions and more.
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Is For Good Men To Do Nothing.
Traveling to five continents and 33 countries, Verrill’s international travel biography Is For Good Men To Do Nothing celebrates the spirit one Rotary Club while chronicling a quixotic effort to build vocational education programs in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, and managing international development issues in numerous countries around the world. The book provides 427 pages of “insightful and witty” non-fiction. “Brilliant,” said a critic. “This book is a must-read.”
It’s international politics with a human touch—and a human mission. Reminding us that charity begins at home. But it doesn’t end there.