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Senior Editor—Leader's Edge

Chris Schneidmiller is Senior Editor at Leader’s Edge Magazine. He most recently served as editor-in-chief for the ExchangeMonitor Publications & Forums, where he led publication of newsletters on topics ranging from nuclear security to greenhouse gases, and as an editor at Global Security Newswire, covering issues related to weapons of mass destruction and occasionally getting to be a foreign correspondent. He previously spent nearly a decade as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers in New Mexico, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Northern Virginia. Schneidmiller earned a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and a graduate certificate in climate adaptation from North Carolina State University.

First job: Reporter for the Roswell Daily Record. No UFO sightings.

Favorite D.C. landmark: The Black Cat

Favorite type of music: Punk

Book I’m still thinking about: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

Most fascinating city I’ve visited: Istanbul