About Chris Akins

Chris Akins owns and operates Akins Creative.

He has served as the Chairman of Wakulla County Republican Executive Committee and served as North Florida Field Director for the Republican Party of Florida where he put together and executed the plan for the Rural County Initiative, putting much-needed resources into smaller north Florida counties. Many of these counties went on to win their first Republican victories since Reconstruction.

He has worked at the American Road and Transportation Builders Association in Washington, DC, the United Way of the Big Bend in Tallahassee, and performed grasstops contract work for OnPoint Advocacy in Alexandria, Virginia.

Chris served as Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidental campaign’s Tallahassee and North Florida Regional Director. Newt won 33 of Florida’s 67 counties, most all of these in north Florida within Chris’ territory.

He currently serves as Executive Director of the Corrections Foundation. He also volunteers as a board member with Friends of St. Marks Wildlife Refuge and is dedicated to conservation and environmental protection.

Chris is also the father to a daughter. His hobbies include wildlife and landscape photography and traveling to national parks.

Chris is a graduate of Tallahassee Community College (nka Tallahassee State College) and Florida State University in Tallahassee. He also has his Webmaster Certification from FSU’s Center for Professional Development.