Christian Dorsey is a former two-term Member of the Arlington County Board who was first elected in 2015. He served as the body’s Chair in 2023 and 2019 and as Vice-Chair in 2022 and 2018. Currently, he serves as a Commissioner at the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center. 

Outside of public and community service, Mr. Dorsey engages as a policy and communications consultant supporting progressive organizations in realizing their missions. Previously, he was a senior leader at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that promotes economic policies that foster broadly shared prosperity. 

Christian is an alumnus of the Georgetown University School of Foreign service and resides with his wife and two children in the Columbia Forest neighborhood of Arlington.