Robert F. Agostinelli
Attorney General Edwin Meese
Edwin Meese III holds the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based public policy research and education institution, where he is responsible for keeping the late president’s legacy of conservative principles alive in public debate and discourse. He also is Chairman of Heritage’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, founded […]
T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., Esq.
Kenneth Cribb, Jr. is a native of South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Washington and Lee University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He also has honorary doctorate degrees from Thomas Aquinas College, Oklahoma Christian University, and Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Mr. Cribb was deputy to the chief counsel of the 1980 […]
Ronald Pearson
Ronald Pearson is president of Pearson & Pipkin, Inc., a public policy strategy and management firm, and he also serves as vice president of Young America’s Foundation’s Board of Directors. Mr. Pearson also served as national treasurer of Young Americans for Freedom and was vice president of a major publishing company. He was born in […]
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 […]
Danielle Lee
Danielle Lee is the deputy director of communications. Danielle assists with maintaining the supporter database and with the direct mail program.
Clare Hinshaw
Clare serves as the Legacy Society & Development Relations Director at YAF’s national headquarters. In this role, Clare works to foster relationships with Young America’s Foundation’s most committed supporters, drafts and edits communications, and organizes the Foundation’s annual Standing Up for Faith & Freedom seminar for conservative students at Catholic schools. Clare was raised on […]
Dede Hamilton
Dede Hamilton is the Foundation front office manager. In addition to her telephone responsibilities, Dede assists in coordinating mailings and managing the office. [back to staff listing]
Ingrid Alston
Ingrid serves as the communications coordinator at our national headquarters. In this role, Ingrid assists with the day to day operation of maintaining the supporter database and the direct mail program. Ingrid joined Young America’s Foundation in February 2004.
Cheri Cerame
Cheri serves as Young America’s Foundation’s director of information technology. She is responsible for the day to day operation of the Foundation’s network infrastructure and the management of the Foundation’s website. Additional responsibilities include email management and live streaming of all student conferences. Cheri also recently led the strategy to upgrade the student database and […]
Jason Barbour
Jason Barbour is the director of development at Young America’s Foundation. In this leadership role, Jason helps individuals achieve their philanthropic goals of conveying the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values to our nation’s youth. In 2000, Jason joined the Young America’s Foundation leadership team as the director […]
Darla Anzalone
Darla Anzalone is the director of communications at Young America’s Foundation. She is responsible for all Foundation correspondence to supporters and for the direct mail program. Darla has been with the Foundation for more than twenty years. [back to staff listing]
Kimberly Martin Begg, Esq.
Kimberly Martin Begg, Esq. has been active in the Conservative Movement since she attended her first Young America’s Foundation conference as a student at Rutgers University. She served on the Foundation’s staff for nearly 15 years, operating as Vice President, General Counsel, and Director of Planned Giving. For nearly 15 years, Kimberly oversaw YAF’s legal department […]
Enes Kanter Freedom
Enes Kanter Freedom is a human rights activist, NBA star, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee who lost his NBA career for speaking out against human rights violations in China. Raised in Turkey, Freedom began to call out human rights violations by President Erdogan in his home country. Turkey then canceled his passport, put his name […]
Winsome Earle-Sears
Winsome Earle-Sears, a native of Kingston, Jamaica, immigrated to the United States at the age of six. She is proud to have served in the United States Marine Corps. In addition to her various appointments, she has served as the Vice President of the Virginia State Board of Education; and as a presidential appointee to […]
Joshua Fontanilla
Joshua is a credentialed teacher with a Masters in both Education and Business and is the CEO of Exodus Institute. Joshua is a former public high school teacher who loves history, economics and biblical studies. He is also a hip hop artist that uses music to educate. Joshua is a dynamic public speaker and the […]
Dennis LeBlanc
Dennis had a professional and personal relationship with Ronald Reagan for more than thirty years. He was first assigned to Governor Reagan’s detail in 1971 as a California highway patrolman. During that time, he assisted with the advance work necessary for the Governor’s schedule. Following Reagan’s governorship, Dennis LeBlanc joined “Deaver and Hannaford,” a public […]
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj served two terms as Mongolia’s prime minister and another two terms as president. He is customarily addressed as “President Elbegdorj” (pronounced Elbeg-doorj) or “President EB.” President Elbegdorj began his involvement in politics as a youth activist. He has been described as the “Golden Sparrow of Democracy” for his role in the peaceful 1990 […]
The Honorable Mike Pompeo
Michael R. Pompeo served as the 70th Secretary of State of the United States, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and was elected to four terms in Congress representing the Fourth District of Kansas. Mike graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1986. He served as a […]
AWR Hawkins
AWR Hawkins joined Breitbart mid-2010 as he was pivoting from a college-teaching career. The culture in academia had become stifling for a Constitutionalist with the growing divide and “othering” of conservatives on campus. “Fellow professors worried about even talking to me,” he says, “afraid it would hurt their careers.” Hawkins is one of the preeminent […]
Riley Gaines
Riley Gaines is a recent graduate from the University of Kentucky where she was a 12x NCAA All-American swimmer. This past year, Riley competed and tied with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at their NCAA championships. Since directly experiencing the injustice of allowing men in women’s sports, Riley has been outspoken on why this issue is […]
Seth Dillon
Seth Dillon is the CEO of The Babylon Bee, a fast-growing news satire site that has overtaken The Onion in traffic and engagement. Taking on the tone of a traditional news media publication, the Bee satirizes real-world events and public figures. Dillon’s experience with censorship and deplatforming has placed him on the front lines of […]
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek is an American business leader and New York Times bestselling author of Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam, along with his second book, Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence.Left leaning media has called him the “intellectual godfathers of the anti-woke movement” (Politico) and the “right’s leading anti-ESG […]
Seamus Coughlin
Seamus Coughlin is a comedy writer, animator, impressionist, and political pundit most prominently known for his role as the creator and producer of FreedomToons and for his position as recurring cohost on TimCastIRL. Seamus has also appeared on The Michael Knowles Show, Pints with Aquinas, and alongside Jordan Peterson on Mikhaila Peterson’s podcast. He is […]
