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Meet David Chrisinger

David Chrisinger

David Chrisinger is the executive director of the policy writing program at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. He is the author of Stories Are What Save Us: A Survivor's Guide to Writing about Trauma and Public Policy Writing That Matters.

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More Than Personal
Transform Your Lived Experience into Political Change

David Chrisinger

Publication Date: December 15, 2026
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Public Policy Writing That Matters

David Chrisinger
foreword by Deborah Stone

third edition
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Because Data Can't Speak for Itself
A Practical Guide to Telling Persuasive Policy Stories

David Chrisinger and Lauren Brodsky

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Stories Are What Save Us
A Survivor's Guide to Writing about Trauma

David Chrisinger
foreword by Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country
afterword by Angela Ricketts, author of No Man's War

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