Areas of Expertise: Refuge System Improvement Act, National Park Service Organic Act, federal lands policy, lobbying, strategic communications.

Christian supervises and directs Defenders of Wildlife’s National Wildlife Refuges and Parks Program. He partners with agency leaders and members of Congress to enhance and defend the policies, regulations, and laws of the National Wildlife Refuge and Park Systems and oversees campaigns to protect and restore habitat on priority lands and waters.

Christian joined Defenders’ Southeast program in 2016 before moving into the Land and Habitat Conservation Department. He graduated from law school in 2015, where he studied environmental law, with an emphasis on climate change and the law and the Endangered Species Act. Christian is admitted to the North Carolina State Bar and holds a J.D. from Charlotte Law and B.S. in Geography from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.