Christina Cromley Bruner,
Co-Founder, Board Member, For 250 MoreTM

Christina Cromley Bruner is a co-founder of 250 More, bringing more than two decades of leadership in federal oversight and public policy. She served at the Government Accountability Office and in senior roles at two Offices of Inspector General (OIG)—including as Special Advisor for Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction at the Department of Energy OIG; Acting Assistant Inspector General for Strategy, Data, and Innovation at the Department of the Interior (DOI) OIG; and Principal Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Recovery Oversight at DOI OIG. In these roles, she led transformative initiatives that strengthened transparency, governance, and institutional resilience.

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Beyond government service, as a PhD student at Yale University and research associate for the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, Christina published seminal research on adaptive governance and collaborative problem-solving. As Director of Policy at American Forests, she built bipartisan coalitions and worked with communities, environmental groups, and the timber industry to revitalize timber-based economies and promote environmental sustainability.

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Her career reflects a deep commitment to democratic institutions, strategic innovation, and the kind of inclusive leadership that builds trust. Through 250 More, she helps forge new paths for accountability to the American people and institutional renewal.

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Select Achievements

• Secured a more than 100 percent increase in budget from Congress, increasing resources available for special oversight projects from about $82 million to almost $200 million. 

• Developed an acquisition assessment framework that led the Office of Management and Budget to direct all federal agencies to change the way they conduct entity level acquisition reviews. 

• Established a data analytics program that successfully instilled a mindset that made analytics a shared responsibility among all staff, leading employees to double their use of dashboards from 10,000 visits to 20,000 visits in a single year. 

• Produced scholarship referred to twenty years later as “perhaps the most significant study of our ambivalence” about how we view nature and our relationship with it.

• Successfully advocated for lasting legislative changes to provide flexibility in how the Federal Government contracts for work conducted on federal lands. 

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For additional information, you can visit Christina’s LinkedIn Profile.

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