Christopher Parker was facinated by trains as a child. Befreinded by local train crews at 11, he learned everything he could about the industry and hired on with the Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad as a Trainman and later became a Conductor and marketing manager for the Cape Cod Central Railroad. He has also written for several publications about the industry, including Trains Magazine and Atlantic Northeast Rail & Ports. He's especially interested in service design - the interplay between operations and marketing. In his twenties, he went to seminary and worked for Quaker non-profit organizations (as a youth worker, fundraiser and Executive Director/founder), then became an interium minister in Vermont before becoming Vermont Rail Action Network Executive Director at the beginning of 2008. He also teaches, does some transportation market-research consulting and a bit of web design work (you can hire him).
Christopher has lived in Windham County Vermont since 2001. An avid contra dancer and hiker, he's on the board of the Vermont Bike/Ped Coaltion and the Brattleboro Dawn Dance Committee.
