June 20th Meeting - Speaker: Christine Q. Burtt

Christine Burtt is president of CQB & Associates, Inc., a public relations and political
consulting firm established since 1981 in Denver, Colorado.

Christine is recognized as a key political consultant with a win record of 41 of
52 Colorado campaigns. She has worked as a political trainer in Russia, Angola,
Mongolia, Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, Ramallah in the West Bank, the United Arab
Emirates, Egypt, and South Sudan.

For her corporate clients, Christine helps tell the right story to keep away from
the wrong side of a media storm through crisis communications, reputation management,
and pro-active New Media strategies.

She is the former chairman of CRBC, the Colorado Republican Business Coalition,
a group that promotes the interests of small business in the Colorado Legislature.
And, she works to improve economic literacy as a member of the Board of the Colorado
Council for Economic Education.

Christine earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication and a Master's
degree in Public Administration in Public Policy from the University of Colorado.
She and her husband, Doug, are parents of a son who is a helo pilot with the United
States Coast Guard, and a daughter, a professional singer/songwriter.

The family lives in the Observatory Park neighborhood in Denver.