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Christian Dorsey

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Christian Dorsey
Dorsey in 2023
Member of the Arlington County Board
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 2015
Preceded byMary Hynes
Personal details
Born1971 (age 52–53)
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Political partyDemocratic
Residence(s)Arlington County, Virginia
Alma materGeorgetown University
ProfessionPolitician

Christian Dorsey (born 1971 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) is an American politician in Arlington County, Virginia. He previously worked at the Economic Policy Institute.[1] His areas of expertise are community development, housing, race and the economy.[2]

Career

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Dorsey joined EPI in 2008. Dorsey's work there has been to build an awareness of economic policy matters on a grassroots level as an advocate for the EPI with a goal of educating and mobilizing both middle class and disenfranchised communities for equally shared prosperity.

Dorsey also served as the executive director of the Bonder and Amanda Johnson Community Development Corporation, and as executive director for The Reading Connection, a Northern Virginia-based non-profit organization that provides literacy programs for children.

Education

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Dorsey holds a B.S., International Relations from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Controversies

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Dorsey declared bankruptcy on October 16, 2019 (Wash Post, 11–07–2019) just prior to being re-elected to a term on the Arlington County Board in November 2019.[3] Although under no legal obligation to do so, and running largely unopposed, Mr. Dorsey did not notify the public of his bankruptcy, which he later clarified, "In retrospect, I should have had a conversation with the community, no matter how difficult, when I filed for bankruptcy in mid-October..."[4]

Further in November 2019 Mr. Dorsey was stripped of his chairmanship of the Washington Metro's Finance Committee for failing to disclose an $10,000 donation from Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 for 4 months. Mr. Dorsey pledged to return the funds, but in January 2020 falsely said [5] he'd already returned the funds. In February he appears to have written another check, only for it to remain uncashed for 5 months. When pressed he claimed the union told him the check had been lost in the mail. The funds remained unreturned until July 30, 2020 [6] when Dorsey submitted a picture of a cashier's check to various news outlets. In December 2020, a federal Bankruptcy Judge dismissed Dorsey's bankruptcy case, agreeing with the bankruptcy trustee that Dorsey had made an "overt misrepresentation" to the court; the dismissal came under a United States Code section reserved for cases of bankruptcy fraud.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Christian Dorsey's brief bio at Economic Policy Institute Website". Archived from the original on 2011-08-24. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
  2. ^ "Christian Dorsey biography at aaw.arlingtonva.us". Archived from the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
  3. ^ Patricia Sullivan (2020-07-23). "A politician's return of a $10,000 donation was never cashed. The transit union says it lost the check". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  4. ^ "Dorsey's Check Saga May Finally be over". 31 July 2020.
  5. ^ Patricia Sullivan (2020-07-23). "A politician's return of a $10,000 donation was never cashed. The transit union says it lost the check". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  6. ^ "Dorsey's Check Saga May Finally be over". 31 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Arlington official fraudulently misled court in bankruptcy, judge rules". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
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