Chris Deluzio

Christopher Deluzio was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1984. He earned a bachelor's degree from the United States Naval Academy in 2006 and earned a law degree from Georgetown University in 2013. Deluzio's career experience included working as a judicial clerk for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, in private practice as a lawyer, as the policy director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security.[1][2][3]

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Chris is a Pittsburgh-area native, Iraq War veteran, and voting rights attorney. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, Chris served as an officer in the Navy and deployed overseas multiple times. As a lawyer, Chris worked to protect voting rights and our elections as the policy director at Pitt Cyber and previously at the Brennan Center for Justice. He was part of the Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee with the United Steelworkers, fighting successfully for a union. Chris lives with his wife, Zoë, three young children, and their dog, Yankee Doodle, in Allegheny County.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

I believe in fighting for our common good, for our shared prosperity, for a government that serves all of us -- not just the biggest and most powerful corporations.We should be making things in this country, right here in western Pennsylvania with our union brothers and sisters doing the work. The American people never agreed to ship our jobs overseas. We never agreed to let mega corporations swallow up competitors and kill small businesses. We never agreed to sell the dreams of millions of hard-working families to the highest bidder and to make us dependent on fragile foreign supply chains that are driving up prices.Our democracy is in peril. From limitless corporate money running through our political system, to the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, to Republican voter suppression efforts in Harrisburg and across the country, and gerrymandered maps that serve politicians instead of the people – we need bold action to protect and strengthen our democracy.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I stand with the labor movement and supports the union way of life. I fought alongside fellow Pitt faculty members and the United Steelworkers as a member of the Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee to secure a faculty union at Pitt (the biggest union election in the country in 2021).

It’s no surprise that the radical right and their corporate backers have been waging war against unions, one of the most important tools we have to push back against corporate power. Unions have been on the defensive for decades in the face of this rising corporate power, hostile judges, and governments willing to lure companies with anti-union so-called “right-to-work” laws. We know that unionized workers earn better wages, benefits, and working conditions, and it’s long past time we make it easier for folks to form and join a union.

I support the PRO Act, legislation that would reset the playing field to give workers a fair shot at forming a union and to hold employers liable when they break the law, and efforts to protect the collective bargaining and other rights of both private and public sector workers. I also believe we have to fight to protect hard-earned pensions, resist outsourcing of jobs, and guard against efforts to privatize our government.