Chris Sabin, Neighbor

Chris Sabin was born in Brooklyn and moved to Maplewood with his family as a second grader. He is a 1983 graduate of Columbia High School. He has been active in a range of community sports activities as a volunteer parent, including lacrosse and football. He served as Team Commissioner for the South Orange-Maplewood Packers football team from 2009-13 and in a variety of roles for the Maplewood Lacrosse Club.

Sabin is an award-winning senior marketing and promotions executive with credits from a range of major Fortune 500 clients. One of Sabin's key marketing specialties focuses on serious health and lifestyle issues, and his work has included major awareness campaigns related to sickle cell anemia, diabetes, asthma and the dangers of smoking for teenagers. His recent client base includes the NAACP, for whom he helped organize the NAACP Leadership Summit in 2011, 2012 and 2013, securing talent, panelists and corporate sponsors. He also does work for Marsan Consulting (marsanconsulting.net) and F2F | 660 Digital (http://f2f660.com). Past positions include serving as Program Director for the “Be Sickle Smart” campaign of Novartis from 2008-10, as Director of Marketing for TV Land/Nick@Nite from 2004-08 and as Director of Events & Promotions for UniWorld Group from 2001-04. One of his most significant credits is a year-long campaign in 2002-03 for the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (heaf.org). HEAF changes the lives of underserved young people beginning in middle school and continuing in college and beyond through a youth development approach that includes rigorous year-round academic enrichment, social and cultural exposure and constant individual attention.

Sabin graduated from the University of Maryland in 1987 with a BS in Finance and Marketing. He is the father of one daughter, a rising sixth grader, and two boys, a rising eighth grader and a rising tenth grader.