Gabby Sy
Kim Lee
Gabrielle Dankanich
Gabby Dankanich serves as the Capitol Hill outreach director for Young America’s Foundation, working to advance YAF’s mission on Capitol Hill. Originally from Buffalo, New York, Gabby graduated magna cum laude from The Catholic University of America (CUA), where she studied world politics and theology. Prior to her role as the Capitol Hill outreach director, […]
Anna Garrett
Anna Garrett joined the team as the development assistant at Young America’s Foundation’s Reagan Ranch Center. She was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, and recently graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in corporate communications and public affairs. Anna attended her first YAF conference in 2015 in Dallas, Texas, where she began to […]
Tawny Kilpper
Tawny Kilpper, a creative strategist and committed advocate of conservative values, has recently taken on the Middle School Program Director role at Young America’s Foundation. Her mission is to inspire and instill conservative values in young learners nationwide. With over two decades of professional experience spanning various sectors, Tawny brings a wealth of knowledge to […]
Kody McLain
Kody McLain joined Young America’s Foundation as an assistant curator at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California. Growing up in Simi Valley, California, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, sparked his interest in history, the Conservative Movement, and the museum field. Kody obtained his BA in history from Westmont College, focusing on […]
Matthew Scheller
Matthew serves as video editor on the Foundation’s digital team. He is responsible for editing and curating video content across various social media platforms, including YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. In addition to video editing, Matthew also produces cutting-edge original video content to serve the massive online conservative community that YAF has helped cultivate over the […]
Micah Salazar
Micah grew up in a conservative family in Orange County, and originally wanted to pursue a career in firefighting. In high school he started working for Lorrain Lim catering who caters all of the Reagan Ranch lunches and Round Table events. While catering a YAF High School Conference lunch at the Ranch, he spoke with […]
Tyler Rasmussen
In August, Tyler Rasmussen joined YAF’s team as a ranch hand at Rancho del Cielo. He is excited to be working at President Reagan’s Western White House. Tyler graduated from Santa Ynez High School in 2020 and loves sports and the outdoors. Most recently, he has worked with his father, learning the construction trade. Tyler […]
Madeleine Tate
Madeleine Tate joined Young America’s Foundation’s team at our national headquarters as a program assistant for digital media. Before her time at YAF, Madeleine worked in pro-life ministry at a local pregnancy center in Falls Church, Virginia. There she worked as the client services director, counseling women through pregnancy decisions and crisis pregnancies. In addition, […]
Damaris Martinez
Damaris Martinez joined YAF’s team as the office operations coordinator for the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home in Dixon, Illinois. As a child living in California, Damaris grew up listening to stories of her mother’s life in Cuba under Fidel Castro’s Communist regime. Damaris’s grandfather was a political prisoner in Cuba for 21 years. Upon his […]
Hunter Morrow
Hunter Morrow serves as a program officer for campus advancement for Young America’s Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa (UI), where he founded the Young Americans for Freedom chapter. Hunter helped Iowa YAF host influential speakers during his four-year chairmanship at UI, including Bay Buchanan, Elisha Krauss, Burt Folsom, and Vice […]
Matt Cutler
Matt joined Young America’s Foundation in January 2022 as a senior development officer at the Reagan Ranch Center. Prior to joining YAF, Cutler served for six years as the director of development at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (SPP). In this role, he worked closely with the dean and other senior leadership to […]
Michael Mastrianna
Michael joined Young America’s Foundation as associate director of YAF’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise. In his role, Michael works to educate and inspire students to embrace free market policies and solutions through state-of-art conferences, lectures, and educational content. A Connecticut native, Michael attended Eastern Connecticut State University and graduated in 2016. During his […]
Jerry Schnake
Jerry Schnake serves as Young America’s Foundation’s volunteer trainer and coordinator at the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home. His love of Dixon, Illinois, and its local history drew him to the Reagan Home. Jerry has lived in Dixon since 1963. He also lived in Woodland Hills California for 2.5 years pursuing a career in the music […]
Ilinca Biggs
Ilinca Biggs is a development officer and events manager at Young America’s Foundation. Before joining the team, Ilinca graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a major in Political Science and International and Global Studies. Ilinca immigrated to America from Romania with her family when she was 11 years old. Because she […]
Kelleigh Clarke
Paul Matthews
Paul Matthews (CPA, CFA®) joined Young America’s Foundation as chief financial officer (CFO). In many ways, this appointment marked a return to the organization, as Paul had previously worked with the Foundation as a student at Wabash College in the early 1990s. Specifically, as an incoming college freshman, Paul attended YAF’s 1991 National Conservative Student […]
Vera Markov
Vera grew up in the former USSR where she and her family were regularly oppressed for their conservative and Christian beliefs. She left Ukraine to obtain a degree in nursing in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she also met her husband. They moved to the United States in 1992 in an effort to leave behind the […]
Adam Ochs
Adam Ochs currently serves as a member of our Reagan Ranch Center staff in Santa Barbara. He grew up in a conservative family in Northern California. After looking for an organization to grow his conservative values, he discovered YAF. He first got involved as a student attending our conferences in high school, and like most […]
Pamela Primrose
Pamela Primrose serves as the controller and is responsible for supporting the chief financial officer with the daily accounting and finance functions of the Foundation, as well accounts payables and human resources. Prior to joining the Young America’s Foundation, Pamela operated Primrose Consulting LLC, a finance and accounting business and served for nine years as […]
Kyle Ferrebee
Kyle Ferrebee serves as the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home Program Director. Through his position, Kyle oversees the Foundation’s goals for preserving President Reagan’s boyhood home and developing it into a premier presidential property and campus for inspiring young people through Reagan’s ideas and values. President Reagan’s home will serve as a beachhead for YAF, helping […]
Tom Robinson
Tom has worked for Young America’s Foundation for over seven years and has been attending YAF conferences since he was in middle school. Dr. Burt Folsom was his favorite Foundation lecturer and helped inspire Tom to attend Hillsdale College, where he graduated in 2008 with a degree in religion and philosophy. After college, Tom worked […]
Brent Kilpper
Brent has been tasked with managing the physical resources at the Reagan Ranch and the Reagan Ranch Center. He is excited to be a part of the Young America’s Foundation team and looks forward to ensuring that the Foundation’s vision is well served through its properties. Brent brings twenty plus years experience in the design […]
