Chris Hardie '99 is a community builder and technology consultant living in Richmond, Indiana. He’s the principal of Summersault, LLC, a website development firm Chris co-founded with another Earlham graduate in 1997, while studying Computer Science. Now headquartered in Richmond, Summersault’s mission is “to build and sustain communities using the technologies of the Internet” - an approach to business very much inspired by Chris's education at Earlham. This also reflects Chris’s personal interests as he works with a number of alternative media projects, sustainable living movements, and community building organizations.

He joined the Alumni Council in 2009. Chris's personal website and blog can be found at www.chrishardie.com.