[Eyes on on Christopher Purdy.]

The Chamberlain Network

Launched in 2024, the founding team of The Chamberlain Network brings a wealth of experience in veteran and community organizing, nonprofit leadership, and advocacy. Having formerly worked together to organize veterans in defense of human rights, their collective background includes leading successful campaigns that harness the unique perspectives and leadership capabilities of veterans to protect and promote democracy. They have spearheaded initiatives to support and defend democracy, relocated and resettled at-risk Afghans, and collaborated with trusted human rights, religious, and refugee organizations.

Christopher Purdy

Christopher Purdy has spent over a decade in veteran and community organizing, most recently as the Director of Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI) and Outreach at Human Rights First. Throughout his career, Chris has achieved remarkable success in harnessing the unique perspectives and leadership capabilities of veterans to protect and promote democracy in the face of rising authoritarianism. He has helped to create impactful campaigns to support and defend democracy that have become their own entities. Chris has also been a leader in the Evacuate Our Allies Coalition since its founding in the spring of 2021, a network of trusted human rights, religious, and refugee organizations working alongside veterans and frontline civilians to relocate, welcome, and support the resettlement of as many at-risk Afghans as possible. Chris served for eight years in the Army National Guard, where he was deployed to Iraq in 2011.

https://www.chamberlainnetwork.us/our-team

Christopher Purdy

2025-2026 Obama Foundation USA Leader

Founder & CEO, The Chamberlain Network

Atlanta, Georgia

Christopher Purdy is the founder and chief executive officer of The Chamberlain Network, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes and empowers veterans to protect democracy through organizing, education, and community engagement. A former Army Combat Engineer who served in the Iraq War, he leads the network to establish local veteran-led community hubs that foster active civil service, provide civic education within veteran and military family service organizations, and organize efforts that promote representative democracy, protect civil liberties, and uphold human rights at every level of government. Christopher worked with numerous organizations to help grow the number of veterans serving as national poll workers during elections, from 1,000 in 2020 to over 160,000 by 2024.

https://www.obama.org/programs/leaders/usa/2025-2026/christopher-purdy/

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The Christopher Purdy canned bios have all the words, i.e.: national guard, veteran community, relocate afghans, save democracy, obama, etc.

Chamberlain Network formed in 2024 (recent).

Army National Guard vet talks about the attack on two National Guard members in D.C.

Nov 28 2025

(NPR transcript of interview with Purdy)

MARTÍNEZ: I was going to ask you about the mission of the National Guard's D.C. deployment, if it's worth it, considering what has now happened.

PURDY: Yeah. Every time a soldier goes out on patrol, elected leaders who put them out on - in uniform on the streets have to ask themselves, is this worth it? And I can't think of a reason why, after seeing this attack, that any elected leader would say, this is worth it. We know that if crime is an issue, that a local elected official should be putting out law enforcement officers.

There are over 100,000 federal law enforcement officers who can do this job better than the National Guard. And they should be the ones out there stopping crime, not putting our service members, especially from outside of the district, into D.C.

MARTÍNEZ: So considering, Christopher, as you just admitted, that you're wondering if it's worth it, the president also ordered 500 more troops to be deployed to D.C. I mean, would more make a difference somehow?

PURDY: No, no. Unfortunately, these troops are coming in, they're going to escalate the situation. The president only knows how to escalate in this environment. What would be helpful is if governors took a look at their forces and forces that they volunteered to go to D.C. and see, is this really the best use of my National Guard? And I'd hope that they'd reconsider this deployment and bring them back.

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MARTÍNEZ: Christopher Purdy is the founder of the Chamberlain Network. He's also worked on Afghan resettlement in the U.S. Christopher, thanks again for your time.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/28/nx-s1-5622960/army-national-guard-vet-talks-about-the-attack-on-two-national-guard-members-in-d-c