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Christopher C. Campbell serves as the Director of Government Relations for NAADAC, the Association of Addiction Professionals.  He is responsible for ensuring the public policy concerns most important to the addiction professional community - especially insurance parity, federal treatment grants and workforce development - are heard and addressed by policymakers in Washington, D.C. He also will be responsible for building relationships with other Washington-based organizations concerned with addictions policy, aiding the NAADAC Public Policy and Political Action Committees and organizing NAADAC's annual Advocacy in Action conference.

Campbell has over ten years’ experience advocating before the Congress and the Executive Branch on a variety of public policy issues affecting children, adolescents, seniors and people with disabilities.  Most recently, Campbell worked at the American Art Therapy Association, where he served as the Association’s first Director of Public Policy and Advocacy and was responsible for building and promoting the Association’s national public policy program.

Prior to that, Campbell was the Associate Director of Public Policy and Legislation at the American Counseling Association, where he advocated on behalf of the nation’s school counselors before the United States Congress, federal agencies and education and mental health communities on education, mental health and social policy issues. In addition, from 2005-2009, he served as co-chair of the National Alliance for Pupil Services Organizations (NAPSO), a coalition of national professional organizations whose members provide and support a variety of school-based prevention and intervention services to assist students in becoming effective learners and productive citizens.

Campbell has also worked as a consultant with the American Educational Research Association, as a Public Policy Analyst with the National Association of College and University Business Officers, and as Assistant Director for Public Information Services with the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.  He has worked on numerous political campaigns, and served in the Office of Speechwriting at the White House during the Clinton Administration.  In January 2009, Chris took a leave of absence from his position at ACA to work for the 56th Presidential Inaugural Committee in the Congressional Relations department, serving as a liaison between the Obama-Biden Inaugural Committee and congressional offices.

Campbell, a native of Ohio, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Akron.  He also has completed post-graduate coursework in public policy at George Mason University.