Christopher Longo is a gender equity intern at the UU-UNO and a Master of Social Work graduate student at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work, where he focuses on policy and advocacy. Chris is a co-leader of the student group White Students Challenging Racism and co-founder and co-president of Macro Social Work Student Network. He is also a B. Robert Williamson Jr. Adaptive Leadership Fellow and perspective Junior Executive Board Member for NYC’s Children of Promise. He has studied international policy in Scotland and treatment of children of substance-dependent parents in Israel. Chris has a background in Political Sociology, which he obtained from the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked as a research intern on studies for recidivism rates of incarcerated populations as well as for identifying preventative child abuse, and his course-based papers often centered on the political opportunities and agency of women and women of color. Chris is a former high school counseling intern as well as a former intern for the World Affairs Council of Connecticut. Originally, Chris is from Montville, Connecticut.