This month on the Metropolitan Culture Corner, we interview Chris Reilly, former chair of the Barcelona chapter of Democrats Abroad.
If you’ve seen previous installments of this monthly interview series, then you know that we usually go behind the scenes with someone from the world of the arts. However, culture is multifaceted, and we wanted to speak with someone who is deeply involved in a different facet of local culture: social and political activism.
Born in the UK, Chris Reilly’s professional life has taken him all over the world, working in business development and senior sales roles, specifically in the fields of new technologies and media. Chris became a green card holder while working in the United States, and became a naturalized American citizen in 2001. While living in New York he worked on the presidential campaigns for John Kerry and Barack Obama. Later, his love of his adopted country led him to want to continue to stay involved even from afar. In 2009, his work brought him and his family to Barcelona, where he became heavily involved in non-profit organization Democrats Abroad, which—among other things—works to encourage American citizens living abroad to register to vote.
