Hi, I’m Chris Theodore
I’m Sophie and Max’s father and husband to Sharon.
I grew up in Santa Monica, California and later in Temecula. My parents first met in the doorway of a small office where my mother was secretary to the founder of what became one of the largest humanitarian organizations in the world, World Vision. My father taught in California schools for 55 years while my mother volunteered for organizations she believed in.
I double majored in fine arts and economics at Claremont McKenna College and was awarded a full scholarship to attend the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand where I earned a graduate degree in art history.
I spent my twenties traveling the world, and spent most of those years discovering, walking, learning languages, and building businesses in Geneva, Switzerland and Budapest, Hungary.
Since then, I’ve spent most of my time as a social entrepreneur using business as a force for good in the field of public interest journalism. This included founding what became one of the largest circulation print magazines in California, The Reader, which reached 400,000 Californians by mail.
In 2021, I ran to represent California in the United States Senate. While we raised the second highest level of funding in the race, I came to see we could not win and I withdrew prior to the election. It was a long, painful experience and one of the best things I’ve ever done.
Today, I am building on our family’s real estate investments and building a YouTube channel.