Chris Gray-Garcia is the deputy director of communications and public affairs with Placer County. Chris got his start in communications as a freelance travel writer in Germany, moving into government public affairs through the U.S. Army’s public affairs career internship program. Afterward he joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Sacramento, where he served on the disaster recovery missions for the Joplin, Missouri, tornado and Hurricane Sandy in New York. He joined Placer County as deputy director of communications and public affairs in 2015.