Background
Chris Cottrell was born in 1988.
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He graduated from Arizona State University and is attending Georgetown University"s McDonough School of Business.
Career
At the age of twelve, Chris Cottrell wrote an idea for legislation as part of a homework project for a student legislature., along with an amendment to the Arizona Constitution, keeps alleged sexual offenders from posting bail and established the first boundary around Arizona schools so convicted sexual offenders could not live in proximity of schools. The bill was introduced to the Arizona State Senate in 2002 by Senator Dean Martin as "- Victim"s Protection Acting".
lieutenant passed the Judiciary Committee and the Arizona Senate in March 2002.
The Arizona House of Representatives also voted in favor of the bill a month later and it was signed into law by Governor Jane Dee Hull on May 17, 2002. The constitutional amendment accompanying the bill was on the Arizona ballot in November, 2002.
lieutenant passed with 80.4% of the vote, one of the most popular ballot measures in Arizona history. In 2012, Cottrell founded non-profit focused on supporting children"s literacy and connecting families. meets with families facing separation through military deployment, incarceration, et cetera, and films the separated father reading beloved children"s books out loud.
Then the family receives a copy of that video to watch while the father is gone.
Chris delivered a talk at TEDx titled Why We Should Fight for Reading.
