CHRISTOPHER SENER

SENER CHRISTOPHER HARLESTON SENER Christopher Harleston Sener, 23, died November 28, 2017, in Queens, NY. Chris was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Silver Spring and Takoma Park, MD. Chris had a warm smile, a playful sense of humor, and a great sense of style and trends. His many friends and family especially remember his kindness, intelligence, and sensitivity as a caring friend and loving son, cousin, and nephew. As an avid music producer, Chris created many highly respected works over a ten-year period, sharing his later ones under the nickname soniksound. As a prolific artist, he worked with numerous media ranging from digital works to sneaker boxes to spray paint. He graduated from the Lowell School in 2006, the Field School in 2012, and magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016 with a degree in Economics. While at the Field School, Chris was a member of the cross-country, basketball, and track teams, and was a role model for younger students; he won several awards, including the Aude Sapere award, the Citizenship Award, and a Coaches Award. While at Penn, Chris was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Carriage Senior Society. In 2016, he worked at Gemic, a strategy consulting company in Helsinki, Finland. In 2017, he worked as a web producer for GQ at Conde Nast in New York. Survivors include his father, John Sener of Takoma Park, MD; aunt and uncle Candice and Dave Falger; aunt and uncle Billy and Mary McCaffrey; aunt Patricia Sener; cousins Sarah McCaffrey, William McCaffrey, Jeremy Wolf and his sons Thomas and Noah Wolf, Lukas Wolf, and Emily Falger and her daughter Lorelai Boehler. His mother, Martha Harleston Platt, predeceased Chris in 1996. A service to commemorate Chris's life will be held at the Field School, 2301 Foxhall Road NW, Washington DC, on March 10, 2018, at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, The Audre Lorde Project, or the National Institute for Civil Discourse.