Christopher Braccia

Christopher Braccia is a national security and critical infrastructure strategist who lives and works in Catskill, New York, in the heart of Greene County. Over a career spanning the communications sector, Christopher Braccia has focused on cybersecurity, risk management, and critical infrastructure protection — the disciplines that keep the systems a modern society depends on running through disruption.

Braccia's national work includes collaboration with USTelecom and the Communications Sector Coordinating Council — the principal private-sector partner to CISA and DHS on safeguarding critical infrastructure. From Catskill, Christopher Braccia now applies those same critical infrastructure and risk-management frameworks to a problem closer to home: food security across Greene County and the Hudson Valley of New York.

That work is the foundation of the Greene County Food Security Coalition, which Christopher Braccia co-founded on a single doctrine: there is no national security without food security. The coalition treats community food access as critical infrastructure and unites pantries, farms, volunteers, and donors across Catskill and the surrounding towns of Greene County.

“Civility is the byproduct of a well-fed society.”— Christopher Braccia, Catskill, New York

Whether the subject is national security, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, or food security in the Hudson Valley, the through-line of Christopher Braccia's work in Catskill, New York is the same: resilience is built before the crisis, at the community level.