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 […]
Tim Goeglein
Tim Goeglein is Vice President of External Relations for Focus on the Family. Formerly, he served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush and as a deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. In addition, Goeglein served as a communications director for Gary Bauer at the Campaign for Working Families, […]
Jake Jacobs
Dr. Jake Jacobs is the host of the Jake Jacobs Show and the author of Mobocracy: The Cultural and Political War to Destroy Our Republic under God, Mother Should I Trust the Government: The Making and Keeping of our American Republic and his latest work MOB RULE: Unmasking the Radical Leftists at Our Doorsteps. Jake has degrees in American History […]
Mathew Manweller
Matt took office representing the 13th Legislative District in December of 2012 after his predecessor resigned before Matt was to begin his first term in 2013. Matt is a professor at Central Washington University (CWU) where he teaches Political Science and Constitutional Law. He is the author of several scholarly books and articles on tort […]
Alex Marlow
Kristan Hawkins
Kristan Hawkins is a Christian, wife, mother, grassroots activist, author, speaker, and a human rights advocate. President of Students for Life of America, she was recruited in 2006 to launch SFLA’s full-time operation. Since then, she has built up a small organization made up of a few dozen student groups scattered around the country to […]
Leila Miller
Leila Miller first became known as a Catholic writer through her blog, Little Catholic Bubble, but now has turned to books. She is the author of two books, Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak and Raising Chaste Catholic Men, and is currently working on a book for Catholic Answers with Trent Horn, on how to talk to children about the tough moral […]
Austin Ruse
Austin Ruse is president of C-FAM (Center for Family & Human Rights, a New York and Washington DC-based research institute focusing on international legal and social policy. The views expressed here are not necessarily those of C-FAM.
Cathy Ruse
Cathy Ruse has devoted her professional career to promoting the dignity of the human person. Her professional experience spans the fields of communication, public policy, and law. Mrs. Ruse was Chief Counsel to the Constitution Subcommittee in the House of Representatives where she had oversight of civil rights and human rights issues, as well as […]
Rev. Robert A. Sirico
Rev. Robert A. Sirico received his Master of Divinity degree from the Catholic University of America, following undergraduate study at the University of Southern California and the University of London. During his studies and early ministry, he experienced a growing concern over the lack of training religious studies students receive in fundamental economic principles, leaving […]
Nick Hahn
Nicholas Hahn is the editor of RealClear Politics-Religion. He is a YAF Alumnus. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Catholic Studies from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. While at DePaul, Nicholas was a Phillips Foundation Ronald Reagan College Leaders Scholar and was named among the 2006-2007 Top Ten Campus Conservative Activists by Young […]
Dr. Arthur Laffer
Arthur B. Laffer is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research and consulting firm. Dr. Laffer’s economic acumen and influence in triggering a worldwide tax-cutting movement in the 1980s have earned him the distinction in many publications as “The Father of Supply-Side Economics.” One of his earliest successes in shaping public policy […]
Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh is a popular writer, speaker, and one of the Right’s most influential voices. He is the host of “The Matt Walsh Show,” and author of the best-selling children’s book Johnny the Walrus. His documentary “What is a Woman?” has become a cultural phenomenon and one of the most talked-about documentaries of 2022. Some […]
