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John Crisp - CEO/President/Partner
John Crisp serves as President and CEO of AkinsCrisp Public Strategies and lives in Nashville. A proven strategist and manager, Crisp has more than twenty-five years experience managing or consulting with corporate, government, political and non-profit public relations and public affairs initiatives.
For the past nine years, Crisp led the firm’s integrated public relations and advertising accounts including those for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration, the State of Tennessee’s Economic Development and Highway Safety offices, and many others. Crisp has also led the firm’s work in support of the Tennessee Valley Corridor, Inc., a national award-winning regional economic and technology development organization led by eight Congressman and the major public and private sector institutions in the Tennessee Valley. In addition, Crisp has managed the firm’s activities in support of dozens of other important national, regional and local clients.
A native Tennessean, Crisp lived in Washington D.C. for seven years and served as a Special Assistant and Counselor for Communications to the U.S. Secretary of Education where he worked closely with the nation’s Governors to mobilize thousands of local communities and activists for the Bush 41 Administration’s AMERICA 2000 grassroots education reform initiative. With the national political consulting and advertising firm, Bailey, Deardourff & Sipple, in the late-80s, he consulted with over 40 political candidates and campaigns across the country ranging from U.S. President to U.S. Senate and Congressional campaigns to local legislative and mayoral races. In the early 80s, he served as an assistant to former Tennessee Governor (now U.S. Senator) Lamar Alexander. Crisp is married, and he and his wife have three children.
