Christopher Rabb is a freelance writer, blogger, web activist, speaker and consultant. A former Capitol Hill staffer, he is the founder and chief evangelist of Afro-Netizen, a Black online community established in 1999. A serial entrepreneur, Rabb also founded Stono Technologies, LLC, the Yale Black Alumni Network (YBAN) and most recently, the Progressive Civic Fund (PCF), a national, web-based political network dedicated to empowering African-American constituencies through strategic and innovative civic action. Christopher is a principal at Visceral Ventures LLC, an organizational dynamics consultancy that focuses on interactive communications and business development strategy. A native of Chicago, Rabb currently lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Prof. Imani Perry, and their son, Freeman Diallo.

[2006] A native of Chicago, Chris Rabb is a consultant, social entrepreneur, and progressive commentator on the confluence of race, politics and technology.

In 1999, Rabb founded Afro-Netizen, an e-newsletter that grew from 100 to 10,000 subscribers in 18 months. By late 2003, Rabb entered the blogosphere and less than a year later, he became one of the 37 “credentialed” bloggers at the Democratic Convention — the only one of whom whose readership was majority people of color.

Rabb, is a Yale graduate, has earned an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics from University of Pennsylvania, co-founded an intellectual property-based product design firm, was a stand-up comedian, and soon to be elected as a Democratic committeeperson in his ward.

Rabb has served as a legislative staffer in the U.S. Senate and White House Conference on Small Business, as well as the vice president of entrepreneurial programs at a nationally-recognized, urban business incubator.

Rabb established and currently manages the Yale Black Alumni Network and is a 2001 recipient of the German Marshall Fund’s American Marshall Memorial Fellowship. He is a long-time director and executive committee member of the Afro-American Newspaper Company of Baltimore, Inc., one of the oldest, continuously family-owned and -operated newspapers in the country. He lives in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of northwest Philadelphia with his wife, Prof. Imani Perry, and their sons, Freeman Diallo and Issa.