Disability Belongs™ Entertainment Lab 2025
Christopher James
Christopher James is a screenwriter and former U.S. Diplomat.
For over a decade he worked nuclear nonproliferation in Pakistan, border issues in Mexico, and counterterrorism in New York City. Now he writes screenplays grounded in the stories of people representing Americans abroad.
Christopher writes both thrillers and comedies, with the underlying theme across both being hopefulness about our interconnected world.
The thing about diplomacy is that there’s surprising overlap with show business. Pitching a project to skeptical colleagues is a lot like asking the Pakistani government to decrease its nuclear stockpile. But there aren’t many people in Hollywood who have been in the room for both.
Christopher is from New York, part of a family of marketers including some of the original “Mad Men” (and women, as his grandmother is quick to remember). He is a graduate of Georgetown and Disability Belongs fellowship alum who identifies as disabled, and he is married with a wife and two-year-old son.
