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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/christopher-hammond
   timestamp: '2024-01-30T15:55:20.238021'
   status_code: 200
 profile:
   name: Christopher Hammond
   name_qualifier: null
   titles:
   - Head, Office of Tribal Relations & Manager, Secondary Transition to Employment
     Program - USGS Partnership (STEP-UP)
   organizations:
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     - Office of Science Quality and Integrity
     - https://www.usgs.gov/office-of-science-quality-and-integrity
   email: chammond@usgs.gov
   orcid: null
   intro_statements:
   - Chris is the head of USGS's Office of Tribal Relations, which builds partnerships
     with Native American and Alaska Native governments and tribal organizations.
     He also manages STEP-UP, a program that provides volunteer opportunities to
     students with disabilities (ages 18-22) to support their educational and professional
     goals.
   expertise_terms: []
   professional_experience: []
   education:
   - M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1999
   - M.A., English, Emory University, 1992
   - B.A., English, University of California, 1988
   affiliations:
   - Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation.
   honors: []
   abstracts: []
   personal_statement: Before coming to USGS in 2019, Chris worked at the U.S. Office
     of Personnel Management as its Director of the Executive Secretariat and held
     management positions in the Agency Compliance and Evaluation division, including
     its Voting Rights Program, which recruits, trains, and deploys federal observers
     under authority of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. His federal career has included
     stints at USDA, DHS, and HHS. He has also been a middle and high school English
     teacher and served on the staffs of three churches, currently as an assistant
     pastor at Centreville Presbyterian Church in Centreville, VA.Chris also provides
     leadership coaching to federal employees through DOI University and has been
     on the faculty of the Interior and Federal Internal Coach Training Programs.