Rico Riccardi
Raj Kannappan
As vice president & director of YAF’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise, Raj Kannappan leads the organization’s efforts to educate and inspire students to advance free market ideas among their peers. His focus is growing the share of young people who adopt the free enterprise philosophy—through free market student conferences and seminars, campus lectures, […]
Spencer Brown
Christian Calvert
Mary Wetterling
Raj Kannappan
As the director of YAF’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise, Raj Kannappan leads the organization’s efforts to educate and inspire students to advance free market ideas among their peers. His focus is growing the share of young people who adopt the free enterprise philosophy—through free market student conferences and seminars, campus lectures, and digital […]
Patrick X. Coyle
Patrick Coyle is the vice president for Young America’s Foundation and executive director of Young Americans for Freedom. Human Events named Patrick as one of the top ten young conservative activists in the nation, citing his success in reaching hundreds of thousands of students by sending high profile conservative speakers to college campuses. He is […]
Governor Scott Walker
The Occupy Movement didn’t start on Wall Street. It started in Madison, Wisconsin, when 100,000 protestors descended onto the grounds of the State Capitol soon after Scott Walker took office as Governor. Their goal was to intimidate him and his allies, but he did not back down. He was unintimidated. Scott’s reforms took power from […]
Connor Vogelsong
Hayden Martin
Maesa Vicente
Walker Owsley
Gabby Sy
Alfonso Santiago
Kim Lee
Gabe Rader
Gabe Rader joined YAF’s team as a development officer at the Foundation’s national headquarters. Gabe became familiar with and involved with YAF as a student during his sophomore year at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri. His first conference was the National Conservative Student Conference that next summer. This conference further evoked his […]
Gabby 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, […]
Victoria Franklin
Victoria Franklin serves as the program assistant for alumni at Young America’s Foundation’s national headquarters in Reston, Virginia. Victoria is originally from San Diego and graduated from The King’s College in New York City with a bachelor’s degree in politics, philosophy, and economics in 2022. She was first introduced to Young America’s Foundation by longtime […]
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 […]
Katie Miller
Young America’s Foundation is excited to welcome Katie Cupp back to the team as a development officer at our National Headquarters. Katie became involved with YAF as a student after attending the Foundation’s Fall College Retreat during her freshman year. This conference ignited her passion for conservative ideas and inspired her to start the first […]
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, […]
Emily Butler
Emily, senior director of marketing and social media. discovered YAF through her experience as the director of marketing at the Daily Wire. While there, she built the company’s social media team and ran all marketing and social media efforts for the Daily Wire hosts’ YAF events, even accompanying Ben Shapiro on his now- famous trip […]
Charlie Jones
Charlie Jones serves as a program officer for YAF chapter services, working with Young Americans for Freedom chapters across the country to promote conservative ideas on our nation’s high school and college campuses. Charlie is a graduate of Michigan State University (MSU), where he double majored in international relations and political theory & constitutional democracy. […]
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 […]