Chris Steins

Chris Steins is the Founder and Senior Advisor at Urban Insight. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Chris has a passion for using technology to improve civic engagement and public participation. Chris developed the popular Urban Insight website, which provides users with data-driven insights into the city of Los Angeles. Chris also created the OpenComment platform, which enables public commenting on documents. The product was acquired by a major tech company in 2015.

Chris Steins has a Master of Planning from the University of Southern California, a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Certification from the University of California, Los Angeles in Networking & Internet Applications Programming. Chris also has a Certification from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust in WSET Level 2 Award in Wines, a Certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, a Certification from HubSpot in Platform Consulting, a Certification from the United States Department of Defense in Identifying and Safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information (PII), a Certification from GSA in Schedule 70 Information Technology Professional Services, and a Certification from Microsoft in MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet.

Chris Steins works with Mark Dischler - CTO, Gergely Lekli - Director, Infrastructure, and M. Carolyn Eckstein - Director, Project Management. Chris Steins reports to Josh Skelly, CEO.