Matt Schlapp
On June 19, 2014 the board of the American Conservative Union unanimously voted to elect Matt Schlapp as the ninth Chairman of the nation’s oldest and largest conservative grassroots organization. From 2001 to 2005, Schlapp served as President Bush’s political director during the re-election and previously as his deputy political director. During the 2000 presidential […]
KT McFarland
Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland is FOX News’ National Security Analyst and appears regularly on FOX News and FOX Business News. She is also the host of FOXNews.com’s DEFCON 3, one of the internet’s most watched national security shows. Ms. McFarland writes a column for FOX FORUM, and records a weekly video blog for FOXnews.com, DEFCON […]
Alan Kors
Dr. Alan Charles Kors is Henry Charles Lea Professor of European History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching since 1968. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. He received postdoctoral fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Davis Center […]
Leah Campos
Leah Campos is a thirty-nine year old wife and mother of four who has spent over a decade serving her country abroad as an operations officer at the Central Intelligence Agency. Leah is a life-long conservative and strong believer in the principles of economic liberty and limited government.
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn is a 33-year veteran of the U.S. Army who has led a long and distinguished intelligence career. One of the nation’s foremost cyber security, international affairs, and national security experts, he headed the Defense Intelligence Agency, which functions as the main foreign military espionage organization in the United States. There, Flynn […]
Stephen Hayes
Stephen F. Hayes is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard and author of two New York Times bestsellers: Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President and The Connection: How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America. He is a regular Fox All Stars panelist on Special Report […]
Christopher Malagisi
Christopher N. Malagisi is Editor in Chief of the Conservative Book Club (CBC) – a division of Salem Media Group, with over 625K members nationwide. Malagisi is responsible for writing and managing editorial content for CBC’s website, daily e-newsletter, social media platforms (over 375K followers), serves as the Club’s public spokesman, and has personally conducted over 100 […]
Lawrence W. Reed
Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed became president of FEE in 2008 after serving as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing and speaking for FEE since the late 1970s. Prior to becoming FEE’s president, he served for 20 years as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. […]
Wynton C. Hall
Wynton Hall serves on the YAF board of directors and is the owner of Wynton Hall & Co., a celebrity ghostwriting agency. Wynton has written 25 books, seven of which were New York Times best sellers. His clients include: world leaders, Hollywood and Bollywood producers, NBA stars, hall of fame coaches, a Heisman Trophy winner, […]
Andy Harris, MD
The son of immigrants who fled communist Eastern Europe immediately after World War II, Andrew P. Harris, M.D., has spent a lifetime serving his neighbors, country and community. Whether it was as a physician at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital, as a medical officer in the Naval Reserve, as a hard-working state senator, or now as […]
Jim DeMint
Becoming president of The Heritage Foundation is “like coming home,” says Jim DeMint, who rose from modest South Carolina roots and a career in marketing to build and lead a resurgent conservative caucus in the U.S. Senate. Heritage’s public policy research, DeMint says, informed him as a citizen and inspired his entry into politics and […]
Jared Meyer
Jared Meyer is a Senior Advisor at the Cicero Institute. Before joining Cicero, he worked at the U.S. Department of Labor and the White House Council of Economic Advisors. He has also worked at the Foundation for Government Accountability and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Jared is the coauthor of Disinherited: How Washington Is […]
Paul Teller
Born in New York City and raised on Long Island, Paul Teller graduated cum laude in 1993 from Duke University in Durham, NC, where he got his B.A. in political science. Before graduating, he was a research assistant to Suzanne Garment, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Also, Paul volunteered […]
Conor Burns
Conor was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 although at a young age his parents moved the family from Belfast to Hertfordshire where Conor grew up. Conor attended St Columba’s College in St Albans a school run by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart. To this day he remains close to his former Headmaster Brother […]
J. Mike Waller
Dr. Waller has been a journalist and investigative writer on national security affairs, including intelligence, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism-related issues. His articles have been published in a variety of academic and professional journals, as well as Reader’s Digest, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is a frequent […]
John Tamny
John Tamny is Vice President and Director of FreedomWorks’ Center for Economic Freedom. John is also Editor of RealClearMarkets, a contributor at Forbes, and a senior economic advisor to the mutual fund firm, Applied Finance Group. John is author of five books, including Popular Economics, Who Needs the Fed, The End of Work, They’re Both Wrong, and his latest, When […]
Patrick K O’Donnell
Patrick K. O’Donnell has written ten critically acclaimed books that recount the epic stories of America’s wars from the Revolution to Iraq. He is a premier expert on elite and special operations units and irregular warfare. O’Donnell’s books are described as “nonfiction that read like fiction.” O’Donnell is the leading expert on the Office of […]
Jordan Lorence
Jordan Lorence, Esq., serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. His work encompasses a broad range of litigation, with a primary focus on defending the First Amendment freedoms of public university students and professors. Before officially joining the organization in 2001, Lorence was a productive allied attorney for many years, actively involved in significant […]
Chris Bedford
Chris, former alumnus of YAF, is vice chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom Board of Governors and editor in chief of The Daily Caller News Foundation.
David French
David French is a senior editor at The Dispatch and a columnist for Time. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a constitutional lawyer, David most recently worked as a senior writer for National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. He is a New York Times bestselling author, and his next book, Divided We Fall, will be released in […]
Steve Pearce
Steve Pearce was born in 1947 to a large working-class family. He was raised in Hobbs, New Mexico, where his father worked as a roustabout, selling vegetables on the side of the road to make ends meet. With six children to feed, times were often hard in the Pearce household, but his upbringing has made […]
Dr. Robert P. George
Professor George holds Princeton’s celebrated McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence and is the founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). He has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States […]
Ted Yoho
Congressman Ted S.Yoho represents North Central Florida’s 3rd Congressional district which includes Alachua, Union, Gilchrist, Bradford, Marion, Clay, Suwannee, Dixie, Lafayette, Columbia, Levy, Madison, and Hamilton Counties. He was elected to the 113th Congress in November 2012 and is serving his second term in the people’s house. Once elected to public office, Congressman Yoho wasted […]
Christopher Manion
Christopher Manon earned a Ph.D. in government from Notre Dame University, and has taught in departments of Politics, Religion, and International Relations at Boston University, the Catholic University of America, and Christendom College. For many years he was the staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, chaired by the late […]
