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Dr. James Harrigan

James R. Harrigan is the Senior Editor at the American Institute for Economic Research, and the F.A. Hayek Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. He is also co-host of the Words & Numbers podcast. He was formerly Managing Director of the Center for Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, Dean of […]

Kali Fontanilla

Kali Fontanilla is a former public high school teacher of 15 years. Her rebuttal statement to Prop 16 in California helped to stop the push for legal reverse racism and a new extreme version of affirmative action in 2020. She wrote a 25-page guide against Critical Race Theory for Candace Owens’ BLEXIT Foundation. She has […]

The Honorable Darrell Issa

Congressman Darrell Issa represents California’s 50th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. The District encompasses the central and northeastern parts of San Diego County and a portion of Riverside County, including Fallbrook, San Marcos, Valley Center, Ramona, Escondido, Santee, Lakeside, El Cajon, Temecula, and the mountain and desert areas of the San Diego-Imperial County […]

Vince Everett Ellison

Vince Everett Ellison was born on a cotton plantation in Haywood County, Tennessee. His parents at that time were sharecroppers. Through hard work and a belief in Jesus Christ, his parents pulled him and his seven siblings out of poverty. His family started the Ellison Family Gospel singing group, where Vince sang and played multiple […]

Tom Lewis

Tom Lewis is an award-winning businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Founded in 1991, T.W. Lewis Company is best known for its quality and outstanding customer service in the homebuilding industry and has received numerous industry awards, including America’s Best Builder in 1998 and the National Housing Quality Gold Award in 2009. In […]

The Honorable Kat Cammack

Congresswoman Kat Cammack proudly serves Florida’s 3rd Congressional District as the youngest GOP woman in the 117th Congress. She is the co-chair of YAF’s Campus Free Speech Caucus alongside Congressman Jim Jordan. Kat is a third-generation sandblaster who grew up on a cattle ranch and she understands the hard work and determination it takes to […]

John Lovell

John Lovell is CEO and founder of the Warrior Poet Society — a values-based community dedicated to physical protection, the pursuit of truth, and living for higher purpose. John’s message of ‘the warrior poet’ has garnered over 100 million views through YouTube, social media, and through the Warrior Poet Society Network streaming service and app. […]

Dr. Brian Domitrovic

Brian Domitrovic is the Richard S. Strong Scholar at the Laffer Center. Dr. Domitrovic holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, where he also did graduate work in the economics department. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Colombia University, studying history and mathematics. As a former associate professor and chairman of the department of […]

Rebecca L. Heinrichs

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute specializing in US national defense policy with a focus on strategic deterrence. Ms. Heinrichs publishes frequently in leading political magazines and academic journals, and regularly provides analysis on cable news and radio programs. Ms. Heinrichs serves as an adjunct professor at the Institute of World […]

Tori Hope Petersen

Tori is a former foster youth letting her Abba be known. After an adverse childhood, Tori has overcome the odds. Now she is a leading advocate for vulnerable youth and families, a sought out speaker, and influential social entrepreneur. In 2020, she founded the Beloved Initiative to grant people who are often unseen and unheard, […]

Tori Hope Petersen

Tori is a former foster youth letting her Abba be known. After an adverse childhood, Tori has overcome the odds. Now she is a leading advocate for vulnerable youth and families, a sought out speaker, and influential social entrepreneur. In 2020, she founded the Beloved Initiative to grant people who are often unseen and unheard, […]

Betsy DeVos

Betsy DeVos is a leader, an innovator, a disruptor, and a champion for freedom. She is the nation’s leading advocate for education freedom for students of all ages, having served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Education from 2017-2021. For more than three decades, she has been tireless in her pursuit of public policy reforms […]

Kevin Hassett

Dr. Kevin Hassett served as the 29th Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2017 through 2019. He was thereafter called back to the White House in 2020 to serve as a Senior Advisor to President Trump, where he coordinated the economic response to the pandemic. Dr. Hassett has been involved in national […]

Jeanne Ives 

Jeanne Ives served three terms as an Illinois State Representative. First elected in 2012, Representative Ives demonstrated not only a willingness to lead on difficult issues and question powerful House leaders, but also an insightful understanding of policy.  In keeping with her fiscally conservative principles, she refused both a taxpayer funded pension and healthcare. Her […]

Jeanne Ives

 Jeanne Ives served three terms as an Illinois State Representative. First elected in 2012, Representative Ives demonstrated not only a willingness to lead on difficult issues and question powerful House leaders, but also an insightful understanding of policy.  In keeping with her fiscally conservative principles, she refused both a taxpayer funded pension and healthcare. Her […]

Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fish Out of Water, Martin Luther, If You Can Keep It, Bonhoeffer, Amazing Grace, and Miracles. His newest book is Is Atheism Dead? (EricMetaxas.com/Atheism). He has written more than thirty children’s books, and his books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and […]

The Honorable Mike Gallagher

Congressman Mike Gallagher has represented Wisconsin’s 8th District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. Mike was born and raised in Green Bay, where he now lives with his wife Anne and daughters, Grace and Rose. Mike served for seven years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, including two deployments to […]

Kirk Cameron

Kirk Cameron is known by millions as “Mike Seaver” from the 1980s hit sit-com, “Growing Pains.” Since then, he’s invested his time and energy into faith and family-focused films, television shows and live events, including “Fireproof” -the marriage-centered film that became the #1 inspirational movie of the year, inspiring the best-selling book “The Love Dare”, […]

Ambassador Joseph James Cella

Ambassador Joseph James Cella served as the Ambassador of the United States of America to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu from October 17, 2019 to January 20, 2021. Cella and his family were the largest family to serve in an ambassadorial posting overseas in the history of the State Department. He has over twenty-five […]

Noelle Mering

Noelle Mering is a Fellow at Washington DC based think tank the Ethics and Public Policy Center where she co-directs the Theology of Home Project. She is an editor for Theology of Home, co-author of the Theology of Home book series, and the author of Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of […]

Dr. Carl R. Trueman

  Born and raised in England, Carl Trueman is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge (M.A.) and Aberdeen (Ph.D), and has taught on the faculties of the Universities of Nottingham and Aberdeen before moving to the United States in 2001 to teach at Westminster Theological Seminary (PA). In 2017-18 he was the William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in […]

Dr. William Kline

William Kline is an Associate Professor in the College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois, Springfield. He is the director of the Business and Society project and a senior fellow at the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government. He has taught Business Ethics for over 20 years. He earned his PhD in […]

Dr. Robert Lawson

Robert Lawson is a Clinical Professor and holds the Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom; he also is director of the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business. He earned his PhD and MS in Economics from Florida State University and his BS in Economics from […]

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