Chris Cerino

Chris Cerino has spent the past thirty years in the field of environmental education. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he earned a Masters in Teaching degree for secondary history. For the past twenty-four years he has served as Vice President of Sultana Education Foundation, a local non-profit organization that provides programming for over 10,000 students annually aboard the schooner Sultana, a fleet of canoes, a fleet of kayaks, and at the Holt Education Center in downtown Chestertown, Maryland. Under his direction, the Foundation twice won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Maritime Education from the National Maritime Historical Society.  Chris served as the Mayor of Chestertown from 2014 - 2021. During his time in office, he led the complete rebuild of Chestertown Marina, raising over seven million dollars over the course of six years to complete the project. Chris also spearheaded the revitalization of the Main Street Chestertown program and worked with Town staff to create new parks and make improvements to numerous Town-owned properties. Chris currently lives in Chestertown with his wife Michelle and two sons Joey (21) and Jake (19). When he is not aboard Sultana, you will find him fishing, swimming, crabbing, kayaking, and looking for arrowheads on the Chester and Sassafras Rivers with his family on their 17-foot Boston Whaler.