Christi Harlan is the author of two books about President Jimmy Carter and his active membership in the First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C. "Mr. President, The Class Is Yours" contains previously unpublished transcripts of 14 Sunday School lessons led by President Carter while he was in the White House. "Normal Lives: President Jimmy Carter and His Church" uses first-person accounts from church members, reporters, a church publicist and the previously unknown diary of a church usher to tell the story of a church, a president and the "normal" lives they shared in Washington, D.C.
During a 20-year journalism career, Christi’s articles appeared on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News and the Austin American-Statesman. After leaving newspapers, Christi held top communications jobs at the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.