Meet David Chrisinger

David Chrisinger

David Chrisinger is the 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 the co-author of Because Data Can’t Speak for Itself: A Practical Guide to Telling Persuasive Policy Stories.

Published Works

Public Policy Writing That Matters

David Chrisinger
foreword by Deborah Stone

third edition
Publication Date: April 7, 2026
Because Data Can't Speak for Itself
A Practical Guide to Telling Persuasive Policy Stories

David Chrisinger and Lauren Brodsky

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Public Policy Writing That Matters

David Chrisinger
foreword by Katherine Baicker

second edition
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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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