Chris Pack, BSE Program Director Chris Pack draws upon more than 15 years of training and facilitation experience throughout the United States, and in Australia, Taiwan, Singapore and other Pacific Rim countries. He has worked with educators and students from schools and colleges, community coalitions and non-profit service organizations, local and multinational businesses, and regional and national government agencies. As the Program Director for Community Matters since 1995, Chris has designed and facilitated a wide range of gatherings, from 10-person strategic planning sessions and community partnership meetings to 250-person community-wide summits. He has developed and delivered trainings in collaboration, team skills, community outreach, developmental assets, and other dimensions of positive youth development. He has trained dozens of community coalitions in the 24 HOUR RELAY CHALLENGE program, and provided them with technical assistance for successful implementation. Chris has also presented at many regional and national conferences, including the California Department of Education, the Association for Experiential Education, and the California Association of Peer Programs. Chris worked with three different training firms in Australia while accompanying his wife on a teaching exchange in 1994. He co-founded a successful experiential training and consulting firm, and has designed and built challenge (ropes) courses throughout the world. As Program Director of the Princeton Blairstown Center from 1985-87, Chris developed and implemented experience-based training programs for a diverse clientele, including business, education, youth and non-profit groups. Chris is an Eagle Scout, National Merit Scholar, and graduate of Princeton University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and a certificate from the Science in Human Affairs program, while coordinating the campus peer counseling program. His commitment to community building and youth development has been intensified by the arrival of his daughter in 1998 and son in 2003.