Connor Vogelsong
Hayden Martin
Gabby Sy
Kim Lee
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Michael Mastrianna
Michael joined Young America’s Foundation as associate director of YAF’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise. In his role, Michael works to educate and inspire students to embrace free market policies and solutions through state-of-art conferences, lectures, and educational content. A Connecticut native, Michael attended Eastern Connecticut State University and graduated in 2016. During his […]
Ilinca Biggs
Ilinca Biggs is a development officer and events manager at Young America’s Foundation. Before joining the team, Ilinca graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a major in Political Science and International and Global Studies. Ilinca immigrated to America from Romania with her family when she was 11 years old. Because she […]
Kelleigh Clarke
Paul Matthews
Paul Matthews (CPA, CFA®) joined Young America’s Foundation as chief financial officer (CFO). In many ways, this appointment marked a return to the organization, as Paul had previously worked with the Foundation as a student at Wabash College in the early 1990s. Specifically, as an incoming college freshman, Paul attended YAF’s 1991 National Conservative Student […]
Tom Robinson
Tom has worked for Young America’s Foundation for over seven years and has been attending YAF conferences since he was in middle school. Dr. Burt Folsom was his favorite Foundation lecturer and helped inspire Tom to attend Hillsdale College, where he graduated in 2008 with a degree in religion and philosophy. After college, Tom worked […]
Kyle Ferrebee
Kyle Ferrebee serves as the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home Program Director. Through his position, Kyle oversees the Foundation’s goals for preserving President Reagan’s boyhood home and developing it into a premier presidential property and campus for inspiring young people through Reagan’s ideas and values. President Reagan’s home will serve as a beachhead for YAF, helping […]
Pamela Primrose
Pamela Primrose serves as the controller and is responsible for supporting the chief financial officer with the daily accounting and finance functions of the Foundation, as well accounts payables and human resources. Prior to joining the Young America’s Foundation, Pamela operated Primrose Consulting LLC, a finance and accounting business and served for nine years as […]
Danielle Lee
Danielle Lee is the deputy director of communications. Danielle assists with maintaining the supporter database and with the direct mail program.
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]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
Jessica Jensen
Jessica serves as vice president & chief of staff at Young America’s Foundation. She works directly with the president to help manage the administrative and operational aspects of Young America’s Foundation. In this capacity, she communicates the Foundation’s goals and initiatives with the Foundation’s entire team, board members, and key stakeholders. Jessica edits and designs monthly […]
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 […]
