Christopher Fontana
Senior Consultant
He/Him/His
Christopher is a Senior Consultant at Greatheart, an educator, a facilitator, and serves as Co-Founder/Executive Director of Full Circle Leadership Center. He has facilitated professional development workshops for adults and youth on diversity, equity and inclusion, and democratic leadership since 2006. He has 31 years of experience in classroom teaching and experiential education. Christopher created and piloted the Global Leadership class now taught in Seattle Public Schools.
Between 1992 – 1995, he served as the co-adult organizer of YES, the youth-organized global Youth Environmental Summits, sponsored by the United Nations Environmental Program. He was Co-Founder & Executive Director of Global Visionaries from 1998 – 2017 during which time GV served 5,000 youth, 2,000 of whom participated in a transformational leadership program integrating anti-oppression work with a solidarity-based cultural immersion in Guatemala.
He has extensive cross-cultural experience having resided in Spain for one year, one cumulative year in Guatemala, and has traveled extensively in Central & South America, Europe, Asia, and Egypt. He is fluent in Spanish. Christopher grew up in a family which was rooted in Adlerian democratic parenting principals; this informed his belief that children can become global leaders at any age given the opportunity and guidance. He is the father of two with his partner, Lisa.