Chris Jones
Senior Researcher, Task Force Butler
2023
Chris Jones is the Senior Researcher of Task Force Butler. After serving in the Marine Corps, Chris worked as a photojournalist for six years covering Afghanistan and the rise of extremism in the United States. In 2020 he became an investigative reporter at 100 Days in Appalachia covering domestic extremism, where his coverage of extremist activity and the Capitol attack on January 6th won a national Edward R Murrow Award. As Senior Researcher, Chris is responsible for training and leading Task Force Butler’s research and development teams.
The Summit unites the public and private sectors, domestic and international, against hate and extremism. Researchers, activists, lawyers, technology experts, political leaders, and more come together, each bringing their unique tools to the fight. Important relationships that were established at the Summit in 2021 have carried forward into working groups with concrete deliverables for 2022 and beyond.
