Chrissy Knapp is a Democrat running for the Orangetown Town board with strong ties to the Orangetown Community. Both of her parents were raised in Pearl River and Chrissy attended Suffern elementary schools until her family relocated to Orange County. After completing high school, and her Bachelor’s degree at UCONN, Chrissy returned to her roots in Rockland by settling in Nyack where she has resided since 2002.

A mother of four girls, Chrissy has spent many years as a community volunteer. She has served on the Village of Nyack Parks Commission, she is a Cornell Cooperative Extension Certified Master Gardener, where she helped establish school garden programs in Rockland county elementary schools. She is a Girl Scout Leader, a former PTA Vice President, a 2018 graduate of Leadership Rockland, and has served as President of the Nyack Park Conservancy (NPC) since 2016. During her tenure with the NPC, she worked tirelessly to raise private donations and to secure grants to help the Village of Nyack implement Memorial Park's comprehensive Master Plan. In 2016 she led an initiative to build a splash pad in Nyack’s Memorial Park and helped to secure project funding from the NYS Thruway Authority.

In her professional career, Chrissy has worked for over 20 years at various banks and brokers. She is an experienced Program Manager with a proven track record of implementing large scale regulatory programs within Tax Operations. Chrissy is well respected by her peers as a leader, a fiscally responsible change agent and someone who is dedicated to finding and delivering solutions to complex challenges.

Chrissy is running for the Orangetown board where she hopes to bring her experience as a community advocate and as a program manager to address complex issues in our community. There is a diverse and growing population in Orangetown that deserves representation in the form of a diverse electorate that will represent the needs, wants and rights of all of the community members. Increasing residents' quality of life, focus on environmental stewardship, increasing recreation opportunities, working to evolve policy in response to change and providing greater transparency into the governmental process is an obligation she takes very seriously, and she hopes to serve her community in this role.