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ROBERT NOVAK JOURNALISM FELLOWS Since Inception of the Program in 1994

ROBERT NOVAK JOURNALISM FELLOWS Since Inception of the Program in 1994

Update on the 141 JOURNALISM FELLOWS Since Inception of the Program in 1994

24th Annual Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Awards Dinner May 10, 2017 2017 ROBERT NOVAK JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP AWARD WINNERS

HELEN R. ANDREWS | PART-TIME FELLOWSHIP Project: “Eminent Boomers: The Worst Generation from Birth to Decadence” Helen earned a degree in religious studies from , where she served as speaker of the . Currently a freelance writer and commentator, she served for three years as a policy analyst for the Centre for Independent Studies, a leading conservative think tank in suburban Sydney, . Previously, she was an associate editor at . Her work has appeared in , Claremont Review of Books, , and others.

MADISON E. ISZLER | PART-TIME FELLOWSHIP Project: “What’s Killing Middle-Aged White Women—and What Means for Society” Madison holds a master’s degree, cum laude, in political philosophy and from The King’s College. Currently, she is an Intercollegiate Studies Institute Reporting Fellow. She has interned for USA Today and the National Association of Scholars and was a reporter for the Post. Her work has appeared in numerous outlets, including the Raleigh & Observer, Charlotte Observer, and Herald. Originally from , she resides in Raleigh, .

RYAN LOVELACE | PART-TIME FELLOWSHIP Project: “Hiding in Plain Sight: Criminal in America” An Illinois native, Ryan attended and played football for the University of Wyoming. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Butler University. He currently handles the Supreme Court beat for The , where he was previously a political reporter. He was a William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism at the National Review, an intern at The Weekly Standard and a contributing reporter to The College Fix. His work has appeared on The , , and Time magazine’s politics .

MATTHEW SCHMITZ | FULL-TIME FELLOWSHIP Project: “The Revolt Against Progress” Originally from O’Neill, Nebraska, Matthew resides in . He earned a B.A. in English from . He is literary editor for First Things, having previously served as deputy editor. He has worked in his family’s business for several years as an electrician’s apprentice. He also was a page in the U.S. House of Representatives. Matthew’s articles have appeared in , , , The Catholic Herald, The Hedgehog Review and others.

ROBBY SOAVE | PART-TIME FELLOWSHIP Project: “You Can’t Say That: Censorship and the Selfie Generation” Robby holds a B.A. in English from . He is an associate editor at Reason magazine and contributing columnist to . He previously worked for and the Student Free Press Association. He was named to the 2016 “30 Under 30” list for law and policy and, in 2017, was appointed to the District of Columbia Advisory Commission to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for a four-year term. He has appeared on Fox News, CNN and National Public Radio and his work has been featured in USA Today, New York Post, , U.S. News & World Report, The News and others.

JASON I. WILLICK | PART-TIME FELLOWSHIP Project: “Not Your Parents’ Culture : The New Battles Over Speech, and Identity” A native, Jason earned a B.A. in history from Stanford University, having previously attended the University of California at Berkeley. He is a staff writer for The American Interest; before that, he was a research assistant at the National Review Institute, assisting National Review Executive Editor , and an intern at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). His writing has been featured in RealClearPolitics, New York Magazine and National Review and cited in Slate, , and other publications.

- 2 - in California’s capital region of Sacramento. He has 1994-2016 NOVAK FELLOWS also written for Sacramento News & Review and TheRealEdition.com. Primarily a crime reporter, Scott has been interviewed about homicide investi- Ryan T. Anderson gations nationally on the Travel Channel and inter- Part-Time Fellowship-2007 nationally on Ireland’s Radio 1: Drivetime. Between Project: “Reason and in the May 2010 and October 2011, Scott spent 18 months Public Square” explores the alleged as an embedded reporter with California law enforce- chasm between faith and reason. Ryan ment agencies, partnering with officers on night pa- is the William E. Simon Senior Re- trols, accompanying detectives on warrant searches search Fellow at and the and probation sweeps, observing SWAT operations founder and editor of Public Discourse, the online and spending hundreds of hours with attorneys and journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, victims’ advocates in small-town courtrooms. Dur- . He is the author of “Truth Overruled: ing this time, he also traveled to different rural com- The Future of Marriage and Religious ” and munities across the . The result was his the co-author with Princeton’s Robert P. George and nonfiction book “Shadow People: How Meth-driven Sherif Girgis of the book “What Is Marriage? Man Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America,” an and Woman: A Defense.” Ryan’s research has been exploration of ’s modern methamphet- cited by two U.S. Supreme Court justices, Justice amine crisis. In April 2015, his newest nonfiction and Justice , in two book was released, “The Cutting Four-piece: Crime U.S. Supreme Court cases. He received his bach- and Tragedy in an Era of Prison Overcrowding.” elor’s degree from Princeton University, graduat- ing and magna cum laude, and he Megan Basham received his doctoral degree in political philosophy Alumni Fund Fellowship-2004 from the . His dissertation Project: “The Parable Principle: How was titled “Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natu- Liberal Ideologues Use Film to Con- ral Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic trol Political Discourse.” Megan is a Rights.” Ryan has made appearances on ABC, CNN, freelance and film critic. CNBC, MSNBC and Fox News, including appearanc- She writes for such outlets as The Wall Street Jour- es on “This Week with ” and nal, The Weekly Standard, National Review, Focus “ Live.” His work has appeared in The on the Family, The American Spectator, WORLD New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall magazine and . She has made numerous Street Journal, the Harvard Journal of Law and Pub- appearances on the “Today” show, Fox News Channel lic Policy, the Harvard Health , First and MSNBC. Megan’s book, “Beside Every Success- Things, The Weekly Standard, National Review and ful Man,” was published in 2008 by Random House. the Claremont Review of Books. This spring, Ox- ford University Press will release Ryan’s new book, Sheryl Blunt “Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination,” Full-Time Fellowship-2009 co-authored with Sherif Girgis and . Project: “The Assault on School Also in spring, the University of Notre Dame Press Choice: How Teachers Unions Op- will release a book of collected essays, “A Liberalism position to Vouchers is Impacting Safe for Catholicism? Perspectives from ‘The Review America’s Most Vulnerable School of Politics’”, which he edited with Dan Philpott. An- Children.” Sheryl is a freelance journalist whose derson is currently at work on a book titled, When work has appeared in Christianity Today, The Week- Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgen- ly Standard, the Journal , The Stars and der Moment. Follow him on at @RyanTAnd. Stripes, National Tribune, Philanthropy Magazine and other publications. Prior to serving as a senior Scott Thomas Anderson writer at Christianity Today, she wrote and reported Part-Time Fellowship-2010 for Congressional Quarterly. She has also worked as Project: “Shadow People: How Meth- an investigative reporter for The Center for Public Driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Integrity and has contributed to several books, in- Rural America.” Scott is a journalist cluding “The Buying of the President” (Avon Books, currently working as chief editor of 2004) and “Readings for American Government, The Roseville Press Tribune, Rocklin’s Placer Herald Power and Purpose” (W.W. Norton & Co., 2002). She and The Granite Bay View, publications holds a master’s degree from

- 3 - and a bachelor’s from Wheaton College. She cur- Cambridge University and a bachelor’s degree with rently lives with her husband and children in north- honors from Vassar College. ern . Sonny Bunch Max Borders Part-Time Fellowship-2007 Part-Time Fellowship-2011 Project: “The Biggest Lie: 9/11 Con- Project: “Superwealth: Why We spiracy Theories and the Consequenc- Should Stop Worrying About the Gap es of Bad Ideas.” Sonny is executive Between Rich and Poor and Start editor of The Washington Free Bea- Celebrating Wealth Creation.” Max is con. He also is a weekly contributor to The Wash- Executive Director at Social Evolution, a nonprofit ington Post’s . Previously, he was an arts organization dedicated to solving social problems writer and film critic for , as through subversive innovation. He is former Direc- well as the assistant editor for books and arts at The tor of Idea Accounts at Emergent Order and former Weekly Standard. He got his start in Washington as Director of Content for FEE.org, where he remains an editorial assistant at . In addition, Sonny a contributing editor. He is author of “Superwealth,” has written for , National which was supported by the Novak Fellowship and Review, Commentary, Reason and elsewhere. He published in 2012. In 2013, Max co-founded Voice earned bachelor’s degrees in politics and history at & Exit, an annual event dedicated to exploring the the where he served as editor- ideas of human flourishing. The event is now in its in-chief of the Virginia Advocate. fifth year. Evelina Shmukler Burnett Chad Bowman Full-Time Fellowship-2003 Full-Time Fellowship-1997 Project: “Pyramid Scheme: The Pit- Project: “A study of the economic les- falls and Possibilities of U.S. Eco- sons to be learned from the revival of nomic Aid to Egypt.” Evelina is now factories in the United States.” His the Gulf Coast reporter for Mississippi published fellowship work appeared in Public Broadcasting. After leaving Cairo, She trav- Empire State Report magazine and the Watertown eled to Birmingham, , to cover a corporate Daily Times. Before his fellowship, Chad was a staff fraud trial and then to Mississippi to cover the af- writer for the Watertown Daily Times. Chad went on ter-effects of Hurricane Katrina for The Wall Street to cover international trade and the health care in- Journal. She later visited the Gulf Coast repeatedly dustry for the Bureau of , Inc. (BNA), to volunteer in the recovery efforts. One of the proj- and then earned his law degree from Georgetown ects she started was a newsletter for the citizens of University in May 2003. He now practices media law, Pass Christian, Mississippi, a small town hit hard by representing news and entertainment media in def- the storm. That newsletter eventually became a full- amation, , newsgathering, access, copyright, fledged newspaper, the Pass Christian Gazebo Ga- trademark, marketing and related First Amendment zette, a weekly newspaper which has been in contin- matters. He is a partner at Levine, Sullivan, Koch & uous operation since 2006. In 2008 she received an Schulz, LLP, in Washington, D.C. Alumni Award from Graduate School of Journalism in recognition of her efforts in Brian Brown Pass Christian. Evelina was editor and publisher of Full-Time Fellowship-1998 the Gazette until May 2013. Previously, Evelina was Project: A series of articles on the loss a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in London and of virtue in America. Brian had fellow- a staff writer at the Business Chronicle. She ship-related articles published in The received a master’s in journalism from Columbia Wall Street Journal, The American University and a bachelor’s in English from Swarth- Spectator, The Weekly Standard, American Enter- more College. prise and The Washington Times. Currently, Brian is working on startups in Silicon Valley and is on the Amy Bushatz boards of several companies. He is working on sev- Part-Time Fellowship-2010 eral fiction and nonfiction projects. Previously, he Project: “Deployed: The Silent Sac- was deputy editorial page editor for The Wall Street rifice for Freedom and the Destruc- Journal Europe. Brian earned a Juris Doctorate at tion of the Military Family.” Amy is the McGeorge School of Law, a master’s degree from an associate editor for Military.com

- 4 - and managing editor for the spouse and family blog, azine, a magazine for based in Boulder, SpouseBuzz.com. She has written for Army Times where he reports about politics and drugs, especially newspaper, Runner’s World magazine, Federal the marijuana boom, the heroin epidemic and , and The Washington Times and is psychedelic renaissance. On the weekends, he works a co-producer of the award winning documentary as an EMT on an ambulance in Boulder, where he “To Remember.” She is also the founder and editor sees drugs’ effects on the streets with his own eyes. of HumansOutside.com. An Army wife and mother of two, Amy has been featured as a military family Tim Carney subject matter expert on National Public Radio and Full-Time Fellowship-2003 in the New York Times. She earned a bachelor’s in Project: “Regulatory Robber Bar- communications at Thomas Edison State College. ons,” investigating how some big businesses work with government Colleen Carroll Campbell regulators to stifle competition. The Full-Time Fellowship-2000 project became Tim’s first book, “The Big Ripoff: Project: “The New Faithful,” examin- How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your ing religious devotion among young Money.” The book was released in 2006 by John adults. Colleen is an author, print and Wiley & Sons, and won first prize in the Intercolle- broadcast journalist and former presi- giate Studies Institute’s 2008 Culture of Enterprise dential speechwriter. Her critically acclaimed first competition as well as the 2006 Lysander Spooner book, “The New Faithful” (Loyola, 2002), was fol- Award for “best book on liberty” from Laissez-Faire lowed by her award-winning spiritual memoir, “My Books. Currently, Tim is the senior political colum- Sisters the Saints” (Random House, 2012), which nist at the Washington Examiner, where he writes has been translated into three languages. Colleen two columns per week and daily. Tim is also a has written for such outlets as The New York Times, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The Washington Post, First Things and America, Tim worked for the late columnist Robert Novak for and appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, PBS and four years, including as a reporter and editor for the National Public Radio. She served as executive pro- Evans-Novak Political Report. Tim has also been an ducer and anchor of “EWTN News Nightly with Col- MSNBC contributor, an editor at Regnery Publish- leen Carroll Campbell,” a television newscast airing ing, the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the worldwide on EWTN, the world’s largest religious Competitive Enterprise Institute and a reporter at media network, and as creator and host of EWTN’s . His second book, “Obamanomics,” “Faith & Culture” television and radio interview was published by Regnery in 2009. He received a show. In 2013, she anchored EWTN’s live television bachelor’s in liberal arts from St. John’s College in coverage of the historic election of in Annapolis, . He lives in the D.C. area with Rome. A former speechwriter to President George his wife, Katie, and their six children. W. Bush, editorial writer and op-ed columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Ethics and Public Jonathan Cassidy Policy Center fellow, Colleen has received two hon- Alumni-Fund Fellowship-2014 orary doctorates and numerous other awards for her Project: “A modern-day version of the work, including the Phillips Foundation’s Distin- Lincoln Steffens’ classic ‘The Shame of guished Conservative Leader of the Year Award. She the Cities,’ investigating how the pen- serves as a lay consultant on religious liberty to the sions of public unions are bankrupting U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and speaks to American cities.” Jon is bureau chief and staff writer audiences across America and Europe. Colleen lives at Watchdog.org in Houston under the auspices of near Washington, D.C. with her husband and four the Franklin Center for Government and Public children, whom she home-schools. Her website is Integrity. He previously worked as a reporter and colleen-campbell.com. editor at The Orange County Register. He earned a bachelor’s in print journalism from the University of Reilly Capps Southern California. Part-Time Fellowship-2009 Project: “The Continental Divide: How the West’s Geography Carves the Political and Cultural Future of Amer- ica; or How the Nanny State Took over the Wild West.” Reilly is a reporter for Rooster Mag-

- 5 - Damien Cave emerging markets and design. He also curates Fast Full-Time Fellowship-2002 Company’s live events. His book “Does Jesus Really Project: “Beach Blanket Capitalism,” Love Me?” is an exploration of the intersection be- focusing on four aspects of the Cuban tween Christianity and in America, government’s effort to increase tour- and was published by HarperCollins in the spring ism: American laws and their effect of 2013. on Cuban travel policy, the changing fortune of underground entrepreneurs, the effects of “tour- Cheryl K. Chumley ism ” on local citizens, and the role that Part-Time Fellowship-2008 tourism training schools play in exacerbating preju- Project: “National Heritage Areas: dices against race, class and political creed. Damien A Blot against Property Rights or a spent 18 months on assignment for The New York Boon for the Nation?” Cheryl is the Times in Iraq. He is a foreign correspondent for The online opinion editor for the Wash- New York Times covering , Central America ington Times, as well as a writer and public speaker. and the Caribbean. He previously worked as an as- Her past and present writing credits include news sociate editor at , a senior writer for and opinion pieces at The Washington Times, the Salon.com and as a staff writer for the Keene Senti- Blaze, and PamelaGeller.com. nel in New Hampshire. He received a bachelor’s in Her latest book, “The Devil in DC: Winning Back the English from College and a master’s in jour- Country from the Beast in Washington,” with a fore- nalism from Columbia University. word from former governor and presidential candi- date Mike , was published in March 2016. Michael Chapman Her first, “Police States USA: How Orwell’s Night- Full-Time Fellowship-1995 mare Is Becoming Our Reality,” with a foreword Project: “An investigation into J. Rob- from Rep. (R-TX), was published in ert Oppenheimer and his alleged in- May 2014. She has been a guest on hundreds of local volvement in passing atomic secrets and national radio and television shows, including to the .” Michael has Fox News, C-SPAN and CBN. She is an active Army been published or cited in Investor’s Business Dai- veteran, currently living in Northern Virginia with ly, New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Boston her husband, Doug, and their four children. Globe, Orange County Register, Human Events, The Moscow Times, Congressional Quarterly, National Drew Cline Review, , Scripps Howard, Drudge Alumni Fund Fellowship-1998 Report, and on with Rush Lim- Project: “An examination of how jour- baugh, Sean and . His research nalism schools are doing an inade- was utilized in the books “The Venona Secrets: Ex- quate job of educating students in two posing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors” by vital areas: politics and economics.” and , “The Vision Currently, Drew is the chair of the New Hampshire of the Anointed” by , “From West to State Board of Education. He is a former editorial East: California and The American Scene” by Ste- page editor of The New Hampshire Union Leader phen Schwartz, “Sacred Secrets: How Soviet - and New Hampshire Sunday News in Manchester, ligence Operations Changed America” by Jeffold and New Hampshire. He received the New Hampshire Leona Schecter, and the “Encyclopedia of Libertari- Press Association Editorial Writer of the Year award anism.” He graduated with special honors from the in 2010 and 2011. Previously, he was a reporter and University of Chicago and was the co-winner of the director of publications for the Founda- 1989 Elsie F. Filippi Memorial Prize in Poetry at the tion in Raleigh, North Carolina, and wrote a weekly University of Chicago. He is the managing editor of column for The News & Observer of Raleigh. He is CNSNews.com. a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jeff Chu Part-Time Fellowship-2004 Eric Cohen Project: “Whine Country: Complaint Part-Time Fellowship-2000 in American Life,” investigating the Project: “The Next War of the Gods: history, culture and psychology of Genetic Capitalism and the Future complaint in America. Jeff is an articles editor at of American Politics.” Eric is execu- Fast Company, where he leads their coverage of tive director of the Tikvah Fund, a

- 6 - foundation devoted to Jewish ideas. He is founding writer at The Washington Times and also served as editor and editor-at-large of The New Atlantis and managing editor of the quarterly journal “The Pub- was director of the bioethics program at the Eth- lic Interest.” He holds a master’s in business jour- ics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. He nalism from New York University and a bachelor’s was previously a fellow at the New America Founda- degree from Harvard. tion, managing editor of and a senior advisor to the President’s Council on Bioeth- Ian Marcus Corbin ics. Eric’s essays and articles have appeared in The Part-Time Fellowship-2013 Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Project: “The Nature and Value of Angeles Times, USA TODAY, The Weekly Standard, Conservative Cultural Criticism.” Ian New Republic, The Public Interest, First Things, was a 2012 Bartley Fellow at The Wall Commentary, the Hastings Center Report and else- Street Journal and served as manag- where, and he is the co-editor, with William Kristol, ing editor at Philosophy and Social Criticism. In of “The Future is Now: America Confronts the New 2016, he opened Matter and Light Fine Art in Bos- Genetics” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). His book, ton, which showcases works by contemporary art- “In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the ists from around the world. He is the recipient of a Age of Technology,” was published by Encounter presidential fellowship from Boston College where Books in 2008. he is currently a doctoral candidate. He earned an M.A.R. in philosophy of religion, graduating magna cum laude from Yale University. Part-Time Fellowship-2008 Project: “The Single Society: The Elizabeth Corey Social Transformation Changing Part-Time Fellowship-2016 American Business, Politics and Cul- Project: “Diversity and Individuality in ture.” Matthew is editor-in-chief of the Modern University.” Elizabeth is an The Washington Free Beacon. Prior to joining the associate professor of political Beacon, he was opinion editor of The Weekly Stan- at . She has received dard, where he remains a contributing editor. He several awards for teaching excellence and has been is the author of “The K Street Gang: The Rise and awarded fellowships by the Earhart Foundation, Inter- Fall of the Republican Machine” (Doubleday, 2006) collegiate Studies Institute and Institute for Humane and “The Persecution of : How the Elite Studies. Her writing has appeared in First Things, Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star” (Sentinel, American Political Thought and the Journal of Philoso- 2009). Matthew’s articles and reviews have appeared phy of Education, among others. She received a bach- in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, elor’s degree from and her master’s the , the Times and The and doctorate degrees from Louisiana State University. Washington Post. He is a 2003 graduate of Columbia University, where he majored in history. Aleksandra Corwin Full-Time Fellowship-2010 Brendan Conway Project: “Our Allies and Our Exit Part-Time Fellowship-2006 Strategy: Poland’s Contribution to the Project: “Running from Iraq: The .” Aleksandra is an ex- Use and Abuse of War Veterans in ecutive editor at Round Table Compa- the Coming Election and Beyond.” nies, where she develops books and coaches writers. Brendan is a vice president, exchange- She has coauthored several books on topics related traded fund (ETF) strategist and senior financial to conscious capitalism. As a freelance journalist, writer at Asset Management. Previ- she has reported from around the world, including ously, he worked as the “Focus On Funds” blogger from , Burma and Tibet. Her work has for Barrons.com, the writer of Barron’s weekly “ETF appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Focus” column and was a live market commenta- Magazine and Forbes. She earned a tor on WSJ.com’s “Market’s Hub” and “Mean Street” master’s degree in liberal arts from the University of programs. Before starting at Barron’s in early 2012, Chicago and a bachelor’s from New York University. Brendan was a stock-market reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, filing stories regularly to The Wall Street Journal and reporting on equity derivatives. Before joining Dow Jones in 2009, Brendan was an editorial - 7 - Duncan Currie Part-Time Fellowship-2003 Part-Time Fellowship-2006 Project: “Dueling Allegiances: Multi- Project: “Seizure Salad: The Revolu- culturalism vs. Patriotism after 9/11.” tion and Counterrevolution in Emi- As the American-born son of Cuban- nent Domain Law.” Duncan is senior exile parents fleeing communist speechwriter and communications tyranny, Paul’s topic was very personal to him. A for- advisor at BP, where he writes for executives based mer officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Paul served in in the United States and the . His combat arms units and as an intelligence officer in previous position was chief speechwriter and senior the Far East and Europe. While assigned to the De- policy advisor for Sen. of , the as- fense Intelligence Agency he was posted as a Naval/ sistant Republican leader. He has also worked as a Marine attaché and global troubleshooter at several writer and editor at National Review, the American U.S. embassies in hotspots in the , Middle Enterprise Institute and The Weekly Standard, and East and . He has lived in five coun- as editorial director of the Bush Institute. His arti- tries and visited over 50 worldwide. In 2010, Paul cles and essays have appeared in a variety of publica- ran as a Tea Party Republican for the GOP nomina- tions, including The Wall Street Journal, the Sydney tion in a Congressional district. He Morning Herald in Australia and The Claremont Re- has been a columnist and editorial writer for the Mi- view of Books. Duncan has been a Claremont Insti- ami Herald, and been published in the Washington tute Publius Fellow, a media fellow with the Hoover Times, and magazine. A Institution and a member of the Foreign Policy former radio talk-show host, Paul has appeared fre- Initiative’s Future Leaders Program. He graduated quently on TV news shows on CNN, Fox News, Uni- from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in history vision, and . Paul also and now lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland. taught politics at the . A graduate of , he has a master’s degree Brett Decker in war studies from Kings College, London Univer- Part-Time Fellowship-2003 sity and a master’s degree in Project: “Terror’s Backyard: The New from Cambridge University. Paul is currently CEO Threat to America from Southeast of SPECTRE Global Risk, an international security Asia,” focusing on the growing terror- and intelligence consultancy. He is also creating a ist threat in countries such as Indo- new national security blog and advocacy group to nesia, Malaysia and the . He is presently support the conservative policies of the current ad- consulting director at the Writers ministration. Group. Prior to his position at the WHWG, Brett was editor-in-chief for , the conservative social Rachel DiCarlo Currie content hub, for its April 2013 launch, where he led Full-Time Fellowship-2005 the digital publication from its Washington, D.C. Project: “The Great Train Snobbery: headquarters. Prior to the launch of Rare, Brett was Why Liberal Ideologues are Wrong the editorial page editor of The Washington Times. About Rail Transit, Highways, SUVs He spent the previous five years as senior vice presi- and the Suburbs.” Rachel is a senior dent at the Export-Import Bank and Pentagon Fed- fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum. From eral Credit Union. He served as editorial page writer 2009 to 2013, she worked in the U.S. Senate lead- and editor for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong ership as chief speechwriter for then-Sen. and for the Far Eastern Economic Review and was of Arizona, the Republican Whip. Before that, she speechwriter to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of served as managing editor of the . Texas. An adjunct professor of government at Johns She has also been an assistant editor at The Weekly Hopkins University and a media fellow at Stanford Standard. Her bylined writing has appeared in The University’s , he received a mas- Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National ter’s in military strategy from the U.S. Naval War Review, The Washington Times, Books and Culture, College, a master’s in government from Johns Hop- the Washington Examiner and other publications. kins and a bachelor’s in political science from Al- She holds a bachelor’s in English literature and lives bion College. Brett’s first book, “Global Filipino,” with her family in Bethesda, Maryland. was published by in 2008. His latest book, “Bowing to Beijing,” was published by Regnery in 2011.

- 8 - Jesse James DeConto written for members of Congress, senior U.S. offi- Full-Time Fellowship-2004 cials, Fortune 100 CEOs and more. David graduated Project: “Navidad: Hispanic Christ- from Kenyon College. mas Tree Workers in the North Caro- lina Mountains” focused on part of the Michael Brendan Dougherty South’s fast-growing immigrant pop- Full-Time Fellowship-2009 ulation. Jesse is a writer and musician living in Dur- Project: “Blowup: The Contradictions ham, North Carolina. He is author of the spiritual of the Economic Crisis.” Michael is se- memoir “This Littler Light: Some Thoughts on NOT nior correspondent for The Week. He Changing the World,” (Cascade Books, 2013). He also is the editor and founder of the is co-pastor of worship arts at Durham Church. He popular baseball newsletter The Slurve. He previ- writes regularly for The Christian Century, Prism, ously worked at as politics editor Huffington Post, Paste and other magazines. He and The American Conservative as a national cor- writes songs and performs with The Pinkerton Raid, respondent. His work has also appeared in ESPN an indie pop band. Jesse spent 11 years working Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Slate and for newspapers, most recently at The News & Ob- The Washington Monthly. server in Raleigh from 2006 to 2011. His website is jessejamesdeconto.com. Ryan Ekvall Alumni Fund Fellowship-2013 Lila de Tantillo Project: “The Rise and Fall of Pub- Full-Time Fellowship-1999 lic Sector Collective Bargaining in Project: “The Toll of Feminism on America: How Scott Walker’s Act 10 American Women and Society” Lila Marked the Peak of Public Unionism examined the material effects of femi- in America.” Ryan is director of communications nism on its supposed beneficiaries. for Local Choice Spirits (localchoice.us), a family She is a registered nurse, as well as a Ph.D. nurs- owned and operated premium spirits business in ing student at the University of Miami. She has been Charleston, . He previously worked an adjunct professor of journalism at St. Thomas as a multimedia journalist at Wisconsin Reporter, University in Miami Gardens, Florida and a Robert part of the Franklin Center for Government & Pub- Wood Johnson Foundation scholar. She is certified lic Integrity, in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated as a CPC medical coder by the American Academy of from Columbia College with a bachelor’s degree in Professional Coders. Her background in journalism business administration with a concentration in fi- includes The Washington Post, The nancial services. and USA TODAY. Lila received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a master’s from Columbia Ashton Ellis School of Journalism and a bachelor’s in nursing, Part-time Fellowship-2015 summa cum laude, from the University of Miami. Project: “The Policy Aspects of Le- galizing Physician-Assisted Suicide: David Donadio Implications for the elderly and dis- Full-Time Fellowship-2008 abled, suicide prevention, conscien- Project: “The Free Press in the Free tious objectors and healthcare rationing.” Ashton is Market: A Study of How the Internet a California-based consultant working with higher is Transforming the Newspaper Busi- education clients. Currently, he is developing a cur- ness” David runs Iambic, a consul- riculum to train doctors and lawyers how to apply tancy that specializes in communicating complex the appropriate standard of care when complying subject matter, from the revolutionary 3D modeling with assisted suicide laws. Ashton received bach- technologies that enabled pediatric neurosurgeons elor’s and master’s degrees from Baylor University, to separate the McDonald twins, who were born con- graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. joined at the head, to advanced treatments for heart He earned a juris doctorate from Pepperdine Univer- disease and neurological disorders, new payments sity and a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont technologies, cybersecurity, pension fund finance Graduate University. His dissertation was the first to and more. David’s work has appeared in The New use interviews with disability rights leaders about York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, their opposition to assisted suicide, and then test Washington Post, , The Atlantic, the argument’s persuasiveness in an online, ran- Slate, CNN, Fox and dozens of other outlets. He has domized survey. His writings have appeared in The

- 9 - Public Discourse, and The Orange Marc Fitch County Register. He is currently working on a book Part-Time Fellowship-2014 review of Judge ’s book, “The Future of Project: “Men without Qualities” ex- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” to be published by plores the use of “experts” in the me- the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. dia and how they not only limit critical thinking but also sell ideology in the Gary Emerling guise of science. Marc is the author of “Shmexperts: Full-Time Fellowship-2009 How Power Politics and Ideology are Disguised as Project: “Police State or Probable Science” and “Paranormal Nation: Why America Cause? The Employment, Effective- Needs Ghosts, UFOs and .” His work has ap- ness and Legal Validity of Law En- peared in The Federalist, World Net Daily, Ameri- forcement Checkpoints in the United can Thinker and Lifezette. He currently works as an States.” Gary is an assistant managing editor in the investigative reporter for The Yankee Institute for news section at U.S. News & World Report in D.C., Public Policy and is the author of several novels. He where he helps coordinate and edit both daily and lives in Connecticut with his wife and four children. longer-term coverage. He previously worked as a se- nior digital editor at WTOP Radio in D.C., serving John Gehring as a content manager, content editor and writer for Part-Time Fellowship-1998 the website of the nation’s top-billing radio station. Project: “Study of the challenges facing urban public He also has worked as a metro desk reporter for The schools, and what their failure means for a democ- Washington Times, where he covered the admin- racy entering the 21st century, through the prism istrations of D.C. Mayor and Virginia of ’s public school system.” John Gehring Gov. . He received a bachelor’s degree in is Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, journalism from Biola University in La Mirada, Cali- a contributing editor at Commonweal magazine fornia. and an adjunct professor of journalism at American University. He is the author of “The Francis Effect: Mario Fantini A Radical Pope’s Challenge to the American Catho- Full-Time Fellowship-2003 lic Church.” His analysis has been featured in the Project: “An examination of the cul- Washington Post, The New York Times, USA TODAY, tural and political transformation of Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, TIME, Politico, Crux, the State of Vermont from a conser- Commonweal, America and the National Catholic vative, Republican state to a liberal, Reporter. His television and radio appearances in- Democratic one.” Mario is the editor-in-chief of clude MSNBC, Fox, Bloomberg, National Public The European Conservative and secretary general Radio and the BBC. A former associate director for of the Hayek Institute in Vienna, Austria. He previ- media relations at the U.S. Conference of Catho- ously worked for The Far Eastern Economic Review, lic Bishops, Gehring has been a staff writer at The Bloomberg New Energy Finance, The Wall Street Catholic Review, The Frederick Gazette and Educa- Journal Europe, Bridge News/Telerate and the tion Week. He contributed essays to “Pope Francis World Bank. His articles, book reviews, commentar- and the Future of Catholicism in the United States: ies and interviews have appeared in The American The Challenge of Becoming a Church for the Poor,” Conservative, The American Spectator, The Ameri- and “Voting and Holiness: Catholic Perspectives on can Thinker, Catholic World Report, Crisis, Front Political Participation.” Gehring is a graduate of Page Magazine, MercatorNet, The Wall Street Jour- Mount Saint Mary’s University in Maryland and Co- nal and The Washington Times. Mario serves on the lumbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. boards of Review, the Center for European Renewal (Netherlands), European Dignity Michael Goldfarb Watch (Belgium), the Columbia Institute (Italy) and Part-Time Fellowship-2007 the Nicolas of Cusa Institute (Estonia). He earned Project: “The Upside of Global Warm- a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College and has mas- ing.” Michael is senior vice president ter’s degrees in international development, public at Orion Strategies where he does policy and financial journalism. communications and media relations on behalf of political candidates and foreign gov- ernments. Before that, he was online editor at The Weekly Standard. In 2008, Michael served as deputy director of communications for the McCain-Palin

- 10 - campaign. He received a bachelor’s in history from Stephen F. Hayes Princeton University with a concentration in war, Part-Time Fellowship-2000 revolution and the state. Project: “Old-Time Politics in a New Century: Race and the 2000 Elec- Tony Gonzalez tions.” Stephen is editor-in-chief of Alumni Fund Fellowship-2011 The Weekly Standard and a Fox News Project: “Buying Barbecue Sauce by contributor. He is a regular member of the “All-Star the Truckload: How Entrepreneurs Panel” on “Special Report with .” Ste- Find Profit in the Uncertain World of phen previously served as a CNN commentator and Lost and Unclaimed Freight.” Tony re- appeared daily on “The Situation Room with Wolf ports for Nashville Public Radio in Tennessee, where Blitzer.” He was part of the CNN team that won a he lives. An economics graduate from Hillsdale Col- Peabody Award for 2008 campaign coverage. He is lege in Michigan, Tony began his fellowship while the author of two New York Times best-sellers: “The reporting and editing at The News Virginian news- Connection: How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with paper. He completed the work in Nashville, where Has Endangered America” and he has been covering city government and telling “Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Pow- offbeat stories since 2011 – first for The Tennessean erful and Controversial Vice President.” His work newspaper and now for WPLN. His work also airs has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Los on National Public Radio, Marketplace and Here & Angeles Times, Reason, National Review and many Now. other publications. He is a regular commentator on politics and policy, with appearances on National Alexander Halperin Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation,” the “Today” Full-Time Fellowship-2007 show, “Good Morning America,” “,” Project: “Business Off the Grid: Free “,” “This Week,” “The O’Reilly Fac- Enterprise and the Brighter African tor,” HBO’s “Real Time with ” and “The Future.” Alex is a freelance business Daily Show with .” Stephen is a native reporter based in Denver. He has writ- of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and a graduate of DePauw ten for Rolling Stone, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Fast University in Greencastle, Indiana. He studied pub- Company, and numerous other lic policy at Georgetown University and received national publications. His Saturday morning news- his master’s from Columbia University’s Graduate letter WeedWeek is a free and confidential briefing School of Journalism. He previously worked as a on America’s most interesting and fastest growing senior writer at National Journal’s Hotline and as industry. director of the Institute on Political Journalism, a program sponsored by The Fund for American Stud- Nathan Harden ies. He lives near Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife, Part-Time Fellowship-2011 three children and their black lab. Project: “The Higher-Ed Bubble: The Sad, Sorry Story of How the Govern- Mark Hemingway ment Over-subsidized Student Loans Full-Time Fellowship-2002 and Produced a Generation of Under- Project: “Anti-Everything: Anti-Glo- educated, Over-credentialed, Debt-saddled Gradu- balization, Anti-War, Resurrected ates Who Can’t Find a Job.” Nathan is author of the Radicalism and its Un-American book “Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correct- Roots” Mark is a senior writer for The ness, and a Good Education Gone Bad” (St. Martin’s Weekly Standard. Previously, he worked as a colum- Press, 2012). Nathan is editor of The College Fix and nist and editorial writer for the Washington Exam- is a columnist for the International Business Times. iner and as a staff writer at National Review Online. He is a regular contributor to National Review On- He has also worked at the Hudson Institute, USA line. Nathan has written for numerous publications TODAY and Market News International. He has been including The Weekly Standard, The American a Global Prosperity Initiative Fellow at the Mercatus Spectator, Huffington Post, New York Post and The Center at George Mason University and was a 2014 Washington Times. He is a regular contributor to Lincoln Fellow of The . He and Huffington Post and he blogs about higher educa- his wife, Novak Fellow Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, tion for National Review Online. Nathan graduated were Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Fellows in with a B.A. in Humanities from Yale in 2009. Journalism at in 2016. They have two daughters, Evangeline and Linden.

- 11 - Mollie Ziegler Hemingway for Public Policy, Connecticut’s free-market think Full-Time Fellowship-2004 tank. He is the founding editor of Raising Hale, Yan- Project: “Interfaith Is No Faith: How kee’s investigative reporting blog, and has discussed Religious Relativism Is Destroying his stories more than 300 times on the radio. In the Church.” Mollie is a senior editor addition to his work at Yankee, Zachary has writ- at The Federalist. Previously, she was ten for Philanthropy magazine, online a columnist for Christianity Today, a senior writer and a number of other publications. His website is for GetReligion.com and an editor at Ricochet.com. zacharyjanowski.com. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, National Review, First Things, Charles C. Johnson and the Claremont Review of Books. She regularly Alumni Fund Fellowship-2011 appears on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and National Project: “Enemies, Domestic: An In- Public Radio. She graduated from the University vestigation into the Appeasement of of Colorado with a bachelor’s in economics. Mollie Evil by America’s Colleges.” Charles was a 2014 Lincoln Fellow of The Claremont Insti- is an investigative journalist and has tute. Mollie and her husband Mark were named the contributed to The Daily Caller and The Blaze. He Spring 2016 Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Fel- has been published in The Wall Street Journal, the lows in Journalism at Hillsdale College. Los Angeles Times, Investor’s Business Daily, The American Spectator and numerous other magazines Daniel Indiviglio and . He has appeared on Fox News with Part-Time Fellowship-2011 and and on numerous ra- Project: “Fixing the U.S. Mortgage dio programs, including , Mark Levin Market: How Less Government Will and . His first book, “Why Coolidge Make it Stronger and More Stable.” Matters,” was published by Encounter Books in Dan is a senior writer focusing on 2013. He was both the Eric Breindel and the Robert fixed income at Capital Group. Formerly, he was the L. Bartley fellow at The Wall Street Journal in 2011. Washington columnist for Breakingviews, In 2012, he was a Claremont Institute Publius Fel- where he wrote on the intersection of politics, busi- low. Charles is a graduate of Milton Academy and ness and economics. He previously worked as an as- Claremont McKenna College. sociate editor at The Atlantic and as a reporter at the Forbes Washington bureau. Prior to that, he worked Judith Jolma as an investment banker and structured finance Full-Time Fellowship-2005 consultant in New York. He graduated from Cornell Project: “Murder Capital: An Exami- University with a bachelor’s in economics, philoso- nation of D.C.’s Criminal Record.” phy and physics. He currently resides in Los Angeles Following her Novak Journalism Fel- with his wife Amy, daughter Liberty and dog Olive. lowship, Judie worked as the deputy director of communications for Shared Hope In- Jeffrey Jackson ternational, a nonprofit that combats human traf- Full-Time Fellowship-2005 ficking. She previously worked as a metropolitan re- Project: “Equal Opportunity for Men: porter and columnist at The Washington Times and Why a Men’s Movement is Forming.” has freelanced for World magazine. She currently Jeffrey writes for the Taunton Daily enjoys staying home full-time with her four young Gazette in . He previ- children. ously worked as a freelance journalist for two Rhode Island newspapers, The Chariho Times and The War- Elise Jordan wick Beacon. He has also contributed articles to the Part-Time Fellowship-2010 New Oxford Review. Jeff received a bachelor’s in po- Project: “Muslim Girls and Women litical science from Rhode Island College. as Equal ” Elise is a politi- cal analyst for NBC and MSNBC. Elise Zachary Janowski was most recently an advisor to Sena- Alumni Fund Fellowship-2012 tor ’s presidential campaign. During the Project: “Price Fixing: How Govern- Bush administration, Elise worked in the White ment’s Obsession with What We Pay House Office of Presidential Speechwriting and at Taxes Us All.” Zachary is director of the State Department as speechwriter to Secretary external affairs at the Yankee Institute of State . In 2007, she joined the

- 12 - National Security Council, where she worked on Meghan Keane press and communications strategy for Afghanistan, Full-Time Fellowship-2006 Iraq and Pakistan. While at the White House, Elise Project: “Shameless-How America also worked for extended periods at the U.S. Embas- Lost Its Sense of Decency and How sy Baghdad and for the Commanding General’s Stra- to Get It Back.” Meghan is vice pres- tegic Advisory Group at the International Security ident of women’s content at Defy Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul, Af- Media, overseeing the company’s female-focused ghanistan. Elise’s writing has been featured in pub- properties, including Mommyish, The Gloss, Gurl, lications such as the Atlantic, , The Daily Crushable and Teen. With a focus on voice, quality Beast, Marie Claire, National Review, TIME and The opinion writing and outreach, Meghan Wall Street Journal. Elise was born and raised in has grown the network from 4 million to over 11 Holly Springs, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Yale million monthly visits and earned the network a University. reputation for producing reliably smart and funny content for women. Before coming to Defy, Meghan Jennifer Kabbany helped launch and build the properties that are the Part-Time Fellowship-2002 backbone of Defy’s female properties at B5Media. Project: “A Critical Analysis of the Prior to that, she helped create an American pres- Facts and Myths Surrounding Abor- ence for British marketing brand Econsultancy. She tion.” Jennifer is editor of The Col- has also worked as a digital consultant, with projects lege Fix and a contributor to Na- that include organizing and digitizing The New York tional Review. She previously worked for the North Times’ 2008 inauguration party for President Obama County Times as a city hall, schools and features and launching a digital small donations initiative for reporter, as well as a weekly education colum- the charity Goods For Good. In addition, her writing nist. Prior to that, she served as associate editor of has appeared in Wired, The Wall Street Journal, the FrontPageMagazine.com, and held editorial posi- New York Sun, New York Magazine and National Re- tions at The Weekly Standard and The Washington view. Her website is meghankeane.wordpress.com. Times. Jennifer graduated in 2000 from San Diego State University, where she served as editor-in-chief Caitrin Nicol Keiper of The Daily Aztec. Part-Time-Fellowship-2012 Project: “Seeking the Soul in Ameri- Travis Kavulla can Medicine.” Caitrin is editor of Full-Time Fellowship-2008 Philanthropy and a senior editor of Project: “Africa’s New Christian- The New Atlantis. She has been pub- ity and the Future of American Influ- lished in the Weekly Standard, First Things, Com- ence.” Travis is the chairman of the mentary and other outlets, as well as in books by Montana Public Service Commission, Harper, Templeton Press and Assouline Publishing. which regulates electric, natural-gas, water and Under her leadership, Philanthropy has won several pipeline utilities in the state. He recently concluded FOLIO, min, and other industry awards. Her a term as President of the National Association of “Do Elephants Have Souls?” received a 2013 Sidney Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). His by- Award. line has appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Catholic World Report, Dallas Morn- David Keyes ing News and Journal of Eastern African Studies, Part-Time Fellowship-2010 among many others. He also served as associate edi- Project: “The Impact of Technology tor of National Review. He writes periodically on is- on Democratic Dissent” investigated sues pertaining to energy and environmental policy how technology, and the internet in and the regulatory state. He earned a bachelor’s in particular, have impacted the phe- history at Harvard, where he was editor of the con- nomenon of democratic dissent. David is co-founder servative Harvard Salient and an executive editor of and director of CyberDissidents.org, which supports and longtime columnist for The Crimson. In 2008, pro-democracy Internet activists in the . he was a Gates Scholar at Cambridge, where he re- He served previously as coordinator for democracy ceived a Master of Philosophy. programs under former Soviet dissident . Keyes has written for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, The Daily Beast, National Review, and oth-

- 13 - er publications. He completed his master’s in diplo- “Pope Francis’ Little Book of Wisdom: The Essen- macy at Tel Aviv University and received a bachelor’s tial Teachings,” part of a series published by Harper in Middle Eastern Studies at UCLA. Collins. She home-schools her children and blogs about home-schooling and family culture formation at www.thekirkoscaravan.com. Andrea’s fellowship Part-Time Fellowship-2009 topic was on the relationship between the George Project: “Transnational Progressivism W. Bush administration and the pontificate of John and the Threat to America.” James is Paul II, particularly during the . During the a journalist and foreign correspon- time of the fellowship, Andrea was a freelance writer dent currently based in Washington. for Inside the Vatican magazine, as well as other in- He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in ternational and U.S. publications. Her family resides Washington, D.C., a correspondent for The Daily on a farm in Michigan half the year and in Rome, Beast and is a columnist for Tablet. His first book, Italy the other half, where Andrea’s husband edits “The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the the Arabic edition of the website Aleteia.org and ad- Coming Dark Age,” was published by Yale University ministers the Rome program of the Press. His writing has appeared in The Washington College of Liberal Arts. Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Ha’aretz, Newsweek, TIME, Emily Krone Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Slate, The Weekly Full-Time Fellowship-2008 Standard, The American Interest, The Virginia Project: “Unchartered Territory: Can Quarterly Review, World Affairs Journal, National Entrepreneurial Charter Schools Review and Commentary, among other publications. Achieve the Scale and Sustain the Around the world, his writing appears regularly in Quality to Transform the American the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s Public School System?” Emily works as associate leading newspaper, and has also been published in director at the Consortium on Chicago School Re- Britain’s Prospect and Spectator, Italy’s Internazio- search at the University of Chicago. Prior to start- nale, Canada’s Globe & Mail, National Post, and The ing her full-time fellowship, Emily worked as senior Walrus, the Czech Republic’s Lidove Noviny and The education and immigration reporter at the Daily Australian. James previously worked at The New Re- Herald in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Prior to that, public, then moved to Prague to become writer-at- she was Washington correspondent for the Durham large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, where Herald-Sun. She interned for -win- he wrote about the politics and cultures of the 21 ning reporter Pam Zekman at the CBS 2 Chicago countries in RFE/RL’s broadcast region. James has Investigative News Team. She received a master’s previously worked for , the New in journalism from and a York Daily News and . He has been a Robert bachelor’s in history from Princeton University. Bosch Foundation Fellow in Berlin, a Hoover Insti- tution Media Fellow and is a professional member Joshua Kwan of the PEN American Center and a term member of Full-Time Fellowship-2004 the Council on Foreign Relations. He has spoken at Project: “In the Shadows Cast by the Oslo Freedom Forum, the Geneva Summit for : An Examination of the Human Rights and Democracy, the Stockholm Free People, Politics and Economic Forc- World Forum, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and es at Work along the Borders of the Yale, Columbia and Princeton Universities, among Hermit Kingdom.” Josh is the founder of Praxis, a other venues. He is a frequent commentator on tele- community- and education-oriented venture group vision and radio. James is a graduate of the Roxbury focused on equipping and resourcing faith-motivat- Latin School and Yale College. His personal website ed entrepreneurs committed to cultural and social is jameskirchick.com. impact. Previously, he was the Director of Interna- tional Giving for the David Weekley Family Founda- Andrea Kirk Assaf tion. He continues to advise DWFF on grant-mak- Part-Time Fellowship-2003 ing and impact investing. Josh is a founding board Project: “The Pontificate of John Paul member of Village Schools International, a ministry II and the Administration of George that has started more than 30 high schools in Africa. W. Bush: Points of Convergence and He also served on the founding executive committee Divergence in Social and Foreign of the Big Bang Philanthropy Group. Josh has been Policy.” Andrea is the author of the 2016 book published in The San Jose Mercury News, The Wall - 14 - Street Journal, Newsweek, and Stanford Social In- The American Spectator and earlier in his career he novation Review. He worked for five years as a metro was an intern at the Center for International Trade and business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News and Economics at the Heritage Foundation. He and in 2005, interned at The New York Times in its graduated cum laude from the University of Notre strategic planning department. He is the co-found- Dame with a bachelor’s in economics. er and serves on the board of Carpenters Code. He graduated from Harvard and earned an MBA from Christian Lowe Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He Part-Time Fellowship-2009 lives with his family near San Francisco. Project: “Answering the Call: Why Some Millennials Abandon a Life of Jacob Laksin Comfort and Prosperity to Risk Ev- Full-Time Fellowship-2007 erything and Fight America .” Project: “Killing with Kindness: How Christian serves as managing editor for news at U.S. Extreme Multiculturalism Impacts News & World Report. He worked as a senior writer the War on Terror.” Jacob served as a at Army Times and as a reporter at Defense Week. reporter, editor and editorial writer at He graduated from the University of Virginia with Aufbau in New York and Berlin. Jacob is co-author, a bachelor’s in government and international rela- with , of “One-Party Classroom: How tions. Radical Professors at America’s Top Colleges Indoc- trinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy” Rachel Lu (2009), and also of “The New Leviathan: How the Part-Time Fellowship-2015 Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics Project: “Prison Reform in America: A and threatens America’s Future” (2012). He earned study of how effective criminal justice a bachelor’s in journalism from Boston University reform can be implemented in a way and a Juris Doctor from School that remains true to small-govern- of Law, where he was a member of the law review. ment principles.” Rachel is a freelance journalist in Jacob is currently an associate attorney with the law St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a senior contributor at firm of Chadbourne & Parke, LLP in New York. The Federalist and writes for Ricochet and Aleteia, among other news sites. Previously, she served in Jonathan V. Last the Peace Corps and as an adjunct professor at the Part-Time Fellowship-2008 University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. She received Project: “The Fertility Rate and Amer- a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and theology at ica’s Future.” Jonathan is a senior the University of Notre Dame and a doctorate in phi- writer at The Weekly Standard, author losophy at Cornell University. of “What to Expect When No One’s Ex- pecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster” Sam MacDonald (Encounter Books) and editor of a number of es- Full-Time Fellowship-2002 say collections. His work has been featured in The Project: Sam explored the conflict between loggers Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington and environmentalists in the Allegheny National Post, Inquirer, New York Post, Clare- Forest in northwestern . Rowman & mont Review of Books, First Things, The Week, Sa- Littlefield published Sam’s fellowship as a book, lon, Slate, TV Guide and elsewhere. He is a regular “The Agony of an American Wilderness,” in March commentator on both television and radio and has 2005. His next book, a memoir called “The Urban appeared on outlets ranging from ABC, CBS, CNN Hermit,” was released by St. Martin’s Press in De- and Fox News to PBS, National Public Radio, CNBC, cember 2008 and received positive reviews in the Los and the BBC. His website is jonathanlast. Angeles Times, New York Post, com and a host of other media outlets. He lives with his wife and four children in rural Ridgway, Pennsyl- Joseph Lawler vania, where he was born and raised. He currently Part-Time Fellowship-2013 works in economic development, but continues to Project: “Red Tape and Redlining: write and teach. The Problem of Overregulation in Poor America.” Joseph is economics writer for the Washington Examiner. He has held editorial positions at RealClearPolitics, - 15 - Aaron MacLean New Jersey’s Hispanic newspaper and website, Part-Time Fellowship-2014 reportehispano.com. Cara has worked for the Asso- Project: “Left Face: The Progressive ciated Press and and has written Transformation of the U.S. Military.” for The Wall Street Journal, The Arizona Republic Aaron is a freelance journalist and an and The International Herald Tribune. In 2004, she officer and master instructor in the helped found Marketing Y Medios, a national busi- U.S. Marine Corps. His work has appeared in The ness publication on marketing, and Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, The Wash- Hispanic media in the U.S. for magazine. ington Free Beacon and other news outlets. He Cara is from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and gradu- graduated from the University of Oxford with a Mas- ated from Columbia University with a master’s in ter of Philosophy and from St. John’s College in An- journalism and a bachelor’s from Columbia College, napolis with a bachelor’s degree. Columbia University in Latin American studies and English. Shawn Macomber Full-Time Fellowship-2006 Diana Marrero Project: “Another Worthy Victim: Full-Time Fellowship-2004 Preaching Class War Lite to the Bour- Project: “Thriving Ties: An Explo- geoisie.” Shawn is a contributing edi- ration of the Connections between tor at The American Spectator maga- People in the United States and zine and a freelance journalist in South Florida. He Despite a Decades-old Embargo and previously worked at the AP. He received a bach- What These Ties Mean for Future Relations between elor’s, summa cum laude, in English/journalism the Two Countries.” Diana is director of the newly from the University of New Hampshire. launched English-language Latino vertical on the- hill.com, The Hill Latino. Serving in a business Katherine Mangu-Ward capacity, she focuses on business development and Part-Time Fellowship-2005 sponsorship opportunities for this start-up within Project: “How 25 Environmental- The Hill. Previously, she was an award-winning ists Set Out to Save the Planet – and journalist with a decade of reporting experience. Wound Up Making Everyone’s Lives Her journalism work has appeared in The Washing- Just a Little Bit Worse.” Katherine ton Post, The Miami Herald and The Arizona Repub- is editor-in-chief of Reason, the magazine of “free lic, among other publications. She has a Master’s of minds and free markets.” She started as Reason in- Business Administration from Georgetown Univer- tern in 2000 and has worked at The Weekly Standard sity’s McDonough School of Business and an under- and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared graduate degree in political science and journalism in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, from Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. She The Los Angeles Times, Slate and numerous other lives in the DC area with her family. publications. She is a frequent commentator on ra- dio and television networks such as National Pub- Stacy Mattingly lic Radio, CNBC, C-SPAN, , Fox News Full-Time Fellowship-1996 Channel and MSNBC. She is a Future Tense Fellow Project: “Reporting on a First Amendment Lawsuit at New America. Katherine is a graduate of Yale Uni- in Northern Mississippi.” Stacy has written several versity, where she received a B.A. in philosophy and books for newsmakers, including The New York political science. She lives in Washington, D.C. Times best-seller “Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero” with Ashley Smith. Cara Marcano Part-Time Fellowship-2005 Daniel McAdams Project: “A Path Out of Purgatory? Part-Time Fellowship-1998 How a Few States are Building on The Project: “Post U.S. foreign Reagan Legacy of Helping the Men- policy in Central Europe.” Daniel is tally Ill Transition from Silent Suf- executive director of the In- fering to Independent Lives in Today’s America.” stitute for Peace and Prosperity and A bilingual journalist, Cara is the CEO, founder co-host of the “Ron Paul Liberty Report,” a daily live and publisher of Reporte Hispano, a WBENC-cer- broadcast. He served for 12 years on Capitol Hill as tified (woman-owned) and Hispanic-owned inde- foreign affairs and national security advisor to former pendent media company. Reporte Hispano runs U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. Daniel completed the - 16 - bulk of his fellowship project in Budapest, Hungary, Acculturated.com, MercatorNet.com (an Austra- where for seven years he worked as a journalist and lian web-based magazine), Verily Magazine, Con- human rights monitor before coming to Washing- scious Magazine, The International Business Times, ton. He completed coursework for a master’s degree CatholicVote.com, AltCatholicah, Our Sunday Visi- in international relations from San Francisco State tor, Family Foundations and other secular and re- University and he holds a bachelor’s in English from ligious news outlets. Meg is an alumna of the Uni- the University of California, Berkeley. versity of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota with undergraduate degrees in Catholic studies and - John McCormack chology, with a minor in theology, and a Master of Part-Time Fellowship -2011 Arts in teaching. Project: “Citizens Divided: How the Supreme Court’s 2010 Campaign Fi- Ashley McGuire nance Ruling has Affected American Part-Time Fellowship-2011 Politics.” John works as a staff writer Project: “The End of Women: The at The Weekly Standard, where he previously served Cultural Disempowerment of Girls, as online editor. He received a bachelor’s in inter- College Students, Mothers and Poor national affairs and history at George Washington Women.” Ashley’s first book, “Sex University, where he served as editor-in-chief of The Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female,” GW Patriot. was released in February 2017. Her writing has ap- peared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Lewis McCrary Post, TIME, USA TODAY and The New York Times, Full-Time Fellowship-2014 among others and she has appeared on almost every Project: “Almoners and Oilmen: The major radio and television outlet. She is a senior fel- Pew Family, American Charity, and the low with The Catholic Association and the Richard Rise of Global Philanthropy.” Lewis is John Neuhaus Fellow with The Becket Fund. She executive editor of The American Con- lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and servative. Prior to that, he served as managing edi- soon to be three children. tor at , special projects editor at Next City and senior editor at The American Con- William McMorris servative. He received a Master of Philosophy from Part-Time Fellowship-2010 the University of Cambridge and a bachelor’s in phi- Project: “Fraud by Any Other Name: losophy and politics from The Catholic University of Public Pension Neglect and the Com- America. ing Panic.” Bill is a staff writer for The Washington Free Beacon. He joined Meg McDonnell the Beacon from the Franklin Center for Govern- Full-Time Fellowship-2011 ment and Public Integrity, where he was managing Project: “Marriage and Young Adults: editor of Old Dominion Watchdog. As part of his Understanding the American Struggle 2010 Robert Novak Fellowship, he studied state pen- to Get to I do.” Meg is the executive sion shortfalls. His work has been featured on CNN, director of the Chiaroscuro Institute, Fox News, , “The Colbert Report” and a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit with a mission numerous print publications and radio stations. He to assist especially lower middle-income Americans is a 2008 Cornell University graduate and lives in to reconnect sex, marriage and childbearing for Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and daughter. the sake of reducing social ills such as entrenched poverty, non-marital pregnancies, abortion, single- Tony Mecia parenting – father absence, in particular – and the Part-Time Fellowship-2001 deinstitutionalization of marriage. As executive di- Project: “The Impact of Anti-Sprawl rector, in addition to managing the growth of the Policies on America’s Cities,” focusing young nonprofit, she plays instrumental roles in the on the “smart growth” movement and Chiaroscuro Institute’s programs, Women Speak the effects of “smart growth” policies For Themselves and IBelieveinLove.com. In 2013, on cities across the nation. Tony is a senior writer Meg was named one of FOCUS’ (Fellowship of Cath- with The Weekly Standard. Before joining the maga- olic University Students) “30 under 30 Young Catho- zine in March 2017, he spent more than a decade lics.” Meg’s writing has appeared in The Washington as a business reporter and editor at the Charlotte Post, National Review Online, The Public Discourse, Observer in North Carolina, where he won several - 17 - awards from the Society of American Business Edi- research in the White House Office of Presidential tors & Writers (SABEW) for his coverage of manu- Speechwriting. Her work has appeared in such pub- facturing and airline sectors. He holds a bachelor’s lications as The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly in political science and history from Duke Univer- Standard, Commentary and the Claremont Review sity and a master’s in journalism from the Univer- of Books. She is the author of the AEI report “Un- sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a derserved: A Case Study of ROTC in New York City” graduate of The Fund for American Studies’ (TFAS) and co-author, with Robin Lake, of “Strengthening Engalitcheff Institute on Comparative Political and the Civic Mission of Charter Schools.” Economic Systems (ICPES), and his first job out of college was as the inaugural staff director of TFAS’ Marlon Millner American Institute on Political and Economic Sys- Special Fellowship-1999 tems (AIPES) in Prague. He lives in Charlotte, North Project: A magazine article about the black Pente- Carolina, with his wife and three children. costal experience and the role of Pentecostalism in inspiring social and political upward mobility for Af- Jillian Melchior rican Americans. Marlon served as a reporter with Full-Time Fellowship-2011 Washington Business Journal and later as a con- Project: “Cross-Cultural China.” Jil- tributing editor with LocalBusiness.com, a business lian writes for National Review as news service focusing on private and small publicly a Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow for the traded emerging growth companies. He received a Franklin Center for Government and Master of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School Public Integrity and is a senior fellow for the Inde- and serves as senior writer and managing editor for pendent Women’s Forum. As a 2011 Novak Fellow, International Ministries of the American Baptist she reported on Christianity in China, traveling ex- Churches USA. In 2013, he became pastor of McKin- tensively and writing for The Wall Street Journal, ley Memorial Baptist Church in Willow Grove, The Weekly Standard, Newsweek , Double- Pennsylvania. Marlon earned a bachelor’s degree think and The Daily. She has previously worked as from Morehouse College. an opinion writer and history page editor at The Daily and a Bartley Editorial Page Fellow at The Wall Paulette Chu Miniter Street Journal Asia. She is a graduate of Hillsdale Full-Time Fellowship-2006 College. Project: “Home of the Brave-How the World’s Refugees Become American John Meroney Patriots.” Paulette is a litigator at the Full-Time Fellowship-1994 law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Project: “A study about the beliefs and & Feld LLP, in Dallas, where she represents corporate opinions of Generation X.” John grad- clients and maintains an active pro practice fo- uated from Wake Forest University. cused on human and civil rights. She will serve as He is a contributing editor of Playboy a law clerk to Judge Catharina Haynes at the U.S. and Garden & Gun. His writing has appeared in The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, during the Atlantic, Architectural Digest, , 2017–18 term. Her article, “’s My Ánto- The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los nia and Legal Thought in the Late Nineteenth Cen- Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. He tury,” is forthcoming in the Creighton Law Review is completing a book titled “Rehearsals for a Lead in December 2017. Paulette graduated Order of the Role: in the Hollywood Wars.” Coif from the University of Virginia School of Law. She holds a master’s degree from Skidmore College Cheryl Miller and graduated summa cum laude from the Univer- Full-Time Fellowship-2007 sity of Texas at Austin. Previously, she worked as a Project: “Modern Parenthood: How journalist in Washington, D.C. and New York. Her Biotechnology is Changing the writing appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA To- American Family.” Cheryl works for day and Far Eastern Economic Review and others. the Hertog Foundation and directs WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org. Previously, she man- Kathleen Monaghan aged the American Enterprise Institute’s Program Alumni Fund Fellowship-2007 on American Citizenship and worked as head news Project: “Political Celebrities: Cele- clerk and editorial researcher at The New York brating Mediocrity in America.” Kath- Times. She has also served as deputy director of leen is currently communications - 18 - director for the National September 11 Memorial and Erin Mundahl Museum in New York City. Previously she was cam- Part-Time Fellowship-2016 paign communications director for the restoration Project: “Pipe Dreams: America’s Shift- of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and assistant communica- ing Attitudes Towards Addiction.” Erin tions director for the Archdiocese of New York. Prior is a reporter at InsideSources, where she to moving to New York, she was communications covers a variety of topics including in- director for the election campaign of Congressman frastructure development, energy policy and environ- Tom Graves of and senior writer at H.E.R.O. mental protests. She has reported extensively on the (Human-rights Education and Relief Organization.) DAPL protests in North Dakota with a particular focus She graduated from Thomas More College of Liberal on tracking the funding behind various groups. Prior Arts with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. to joining InsideSources, she worked as an editorial assistant for The Weekly Standard. Her work has been Stephen Robert Morse published in The Washington Free Beacon, The Min- Part-Time Fellowship-2009 neapolis Star Tribune, The Weekly Standard and by the Project: “My Two Census” examined Center of the American Experiment in Minneapolis. why the 2010 census could become the most controversial data-gathering Lygia Navarro process in history. He was the founder Full-Time Fellowship-2008 and executive editor of MyTwoCensus.com, the non- Project: “Civil Society and Democracy partisan watchdog of the 2010 U.S. Census. In 2012, in Latin America.” Lygia is a freelance Stephen became a Tow-Knight Fellow in Entrepre- writer focused on foreign coverage, neurial Journalism at the Graduate School of Jour- particularly of Latin America and nalism of the City University of New York (CUNY). Latin American issues in the United States. She He earned a bachelor’s in English and history at the has reported from Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, University of Pennsylvania and an Erasmus Mundus Germany and China for outlets such as the Virginia dual master’s from a consortium of European uni- Quarterly Review, MSNBC.com, Associated Press, versities. He recently sold a firm that he founded, The Christian Science Monitor, FRONTLINE/World, Skillbridge.co, a technology and talent startup that Religion Dispatches, Afar and the public radio pro- connects companies with freelance management grams “The World,” “Marketplace” and “Latino consultants, to Toptal. Stephen also produced a USA.” Lygia is a graduate of the University of Cali- documentary about Amanda Knox that appeared on fornia, Berkeley. Netflix in 2016. He is now pursuing his MBA at Ox- ford University in England. Maura O’Connor Full-Time Fellowship-2010 Anna Moya (deceased June 2010) Project: “Misguided Benevolence: Full-Time Fellowship-2005 Three Case Studies in American Aid.” Project: “Democracy in the Birthplace Maura is a freelance foreign corre- of Communism.” Anna spent a year spondent and magazine journalist in Moscow writing for her Novak Fel- who has reported from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Af- lowship. She died tragically in June of rica and Haiti. Her work has appeared in Foreign 2010. She was the founder and CEO of Moya Pro- Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, Slate, National ductions, an international TV production company Public Radio and TIME.com. Maura also covers with bureaus in Brussels, Sofia and, most recently, criminal justice issues for the investigative site The Buenos Aires. After completing her fellowship, Anna New York World based in New York City. She is a covered the 2008 U.S. presidential election for Rus- graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School sia Today TV as a Washington correspondent. Anna’s of Journalism. broad international experience included reporting from Beslan on the anniversary of the terrorist hos- Gracy Olmstead tage crisis in Beslan’s public school. She monitored Alumni Fund Fellowship-2015 the presidential election in Belarus in March 2006 as Project: A study of the decline of family an assistant to a Wall Street Journal correspondent. farming in America and the vital role Anna had articles published in various American played by family farms in the contin- publications. Born in Bulgaria, she became a U.S. ued economic and cultural wellbeing citizen. Anna earned a bachelor’s from Dartmouth of America. Gracy is the associate managing editor College. for The Federalist. Her writings can also be found - 19 - at The American Conservative, National Review, The Madison Peace Week, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine and Alumni Fund Fellowship-2015 others. She is also the Thursday editor for BRIGHT, Project: “Breaking Free: The damaging a daily newsletter for women. She graduated with effects of incarceration on the family a bachelor’s degree in political journalism from and how prison reform can help stop Patrick Henry College. the cycle of intergenerational crime.” Madison is the manager of communications at Avail Shai Oster NYC, a pregnancy care network that serves New Full-Time Fellowship-2000 Yorkers facing unexpected pregnancies. Previously, Project: “Mao’s Muddle? China’s At- she was the assistant to the editor at National Re- tempt to Embrace American Pros- view and the editor of In Earnest Mag, an online perity and Reject American Ideals,” magazine for intentionally minded women. She has looking at the problems and solutions a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from prompted by Chinese government policy. Shai is The King’s College. the Asia bureau chief for The Information, based in Hong Kong, where he covers technology companies Jessica Peck in Asia. He has spent nearly two decades as a jour- Part-Time Fellowship-2010 nalist in China, Europe and the U.S. Oster was previ- Project: “Victim Nation: How We Can ously reporter-at-large for Bloomberg News in Asia. Rescue Our Children from America’s In 2013, he won his second Asia Society Osborn El- Oppression-Inventing, Self-Hating, liott Journalism Prize and George Polk Award for his Overspending, Multi-Billion Dollar role in Bloomberg’s groundbreaking coverage that Diversity Industry.” Jessica Peck, formerly Jessica for the first time documented the fortunes amassed Corry, is an attorney, columnist and policy/crisis by China’s leaders. Before joining Bloomberg, Oster communications strategist. In addition to her pri- was a Beijing- and Hong Kong-based correspondent vate legal practice, she is a principal with Henley for The Wall Street Journal, covering energy and the Public Affairs and serves as executive director of the environment. In 2008, he was the recipient of both Open Government Institute, a Denver-based govern- the George Polk Award for environmental reporting ment watchdog organization that includes an inves- and Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Award for a series tigative journalism component. The Denver Busi- of stories exposing environmental problems linked ness Journal awarded her its “40 Under 40” award in to China’s Three Gorges Dam project. He was also recognition of outstanding civic achievement, and part of a team of Wall Street Journal reporters that ColoradoBiz named her one of Colorado’s “25 most won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for International Re- influential young professionals.” Recent media ap- porting on China for reports on the adverse impact pearances include “,” NBC, CBS, “Hu- of China’s growth. Previously, he covered OPEC for man Events” and Fox News. She earned her Juris Dow Jones Newswires in London and served as Bei- Doctor on full scholarship from the University of jing bureau chief for Asiaweek magazine. A gradu- Denver, a master’s in government from Johns Hop- ate of the Columbia University Journalism School, kins University and a bachelor’s in journalism from Oster was born in Jerusalem and speaks Hebrew, the University of Colorado. She serves on the U.S. French and Chinese. Civil Rights Commission’s Colorado Advisory Com- mittee and as a mentor for the U.S. State Depart- Tiffany Owens ment Young African Leaders program. An avid trav- Part-Time Fellowship-2013 eler and mother of two, Jessica has traveled to nearly Project: “Bohemian Backlash: How 50 countries and nearly all 50 states. trickle-down urban policies that fa- vor the creative class hurt cities and Tom Peter what conservatives can do about it.” Full-Time Fellowship-2013 Tiffany graduated from the King’s College in 2016, Project: “How Lessons from Iraq and where she was editor of The Empire State Tribune, Afghanistan Should Change America’s the student newspaper. She also has been a reporter Border War.” Tom is a contract over- for WORLD magazine and a reporting intern for the seas correspondent for The Christian Brooklyn Reader. She is currently living in Provi- Science Monitor in the Middle East. He previously dence, RI and working as a freelance writer, focus- worked as correspondent for the Global Post and ing mostly on urban issues, and develops content for Kuwait Times, covering political, cultural and eco- books, websites and magazines. nomic affairs throughout Jordan and Iraq. He earned - 20 - a bachelor’s in Middle Eastern languages and civili- Heartland Institute and author of the forthcom- zations from Northwestern University. His website ing “Coretastrophe: What Common Core Means is tomapeter.com. for America’s Future” from Encounter Books. She has spoken for numerous state and national con- Joshua Peterson ferences, appeared on national media such as “Fox Alumni Fund Fellowship-2016 and Friends” and “ Now” and taught his- Project: “Will Robots Want to Vote? An tory, literature and classes. An honors pro- Investigation into the Implications of gram and journalism graduate of Hillsdale College, Artificial Intelligence for Liberty and Joy lives with her four children and husband in the Democracy.” Josh is a freelance writer great Midwest. who contributes frequently to Watchdog.org, a net- work of public interest news websites sponsored by Dan Richardson the Franklin Center for Government and Public In- Part-Time Fellowship-1996 tegrity that report on state and local governments. Project: “An investigation into the Patriot move- Previously, he was the national technology reporter ment in America.” Dan now writes and edits New for the Franklin Center and technology editor for The West Columbia Gorge, a regional news and arts blog Daily Caller. He has contributed to The Washington found at newwest.net/gorge. Prior to his work with Free Beacon, The Federalist and other periodicals and New West, he was the publisher of The Goldendale is a 2011 graduate of the Heritage Foundation’s Com- Sentinel, a 137-year-old weekly paper in Washington puter-Assisted Investigative Reporting Workshop. He State. He is also helping to raise his young daughter, received a bachelor’s degree in religion and philosophy Zora Joy Richardson. Previously, Dan launched The from Hillsdale College. Current, an independent alternative newspaper in the Columbia River Gorge. He worked as a reporter Kyle Peterson for the Inlander Newsweekly in Spokane and as a dai- Part-Time Fellowship-2014 ly newspaper reporter in . Dan earned a Project: “In or Out: How would Brit- bachelor’s in history and graduated from the honors ain’s Exit from the program at the University of Puget Sound. Affect U.S. Interests and the Special Relationship?” Kyle is a deputy op-ed Naomi Schaefer Riley editor at The Wall Street Journal. He previously Full-Time Fellowship-2001 served as managing editor of The American Specta- Project: “Combining Faith and Rea- tor. He graduated from Iowa State University with son: The Revival of Religious Higher bachelor’s degrees in journalism and marketing. Education in America.” Naomi is a columnist for the New York Post and a Mike Porath former editor and writer of The Wall Street Journal Full-Time Fellowship-2003 whose work focuses on higher education, religion, Project: “Opening a Closed Society: philanthropy and culture. She is the author, most Reform in ,” examining recently, of “The New Trail of Tears: How Washing- the recent social, political, economic ton Is Destroying American Indians,” (Encounter, and educational reforms in Saudi Ara- 2017). Her book, “’Til Faith Do Us Part: How Inter- bia. Mike is founder and CEO of The Mighty, an on- faith Marriage is Transforming America” (Oxford, line resource of inspirational and self-help articles 2013), was named an editor’s pick by The New York for people with chronic illnesses or disabilities. Pre- Times Book Review. Naomi’s writings have appeared viously, he was executive vice president of BuzzMe- in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, dia, editor-in-chief of AOL News and worked in a va- Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and Washington riety of writing, editing and producing roles for ABC Post, among other publications. She appears on Fox News, NBC News and The New York Times. He holds News and Fox Business, as well as CNBC. She has a bachelor’s from the College of William and Mary. also appeared on “Q&A with Brian Lamb” as well as the “Today” show. She graduated magna cum laude Joy Pullmann from in English and govern- Part-Time Fellowship-2013 ment. She lives in the suburbs of New York City with Project: “What Common Core Means her husband, Jason, and their three children. for American Education.” Joy is managing editor of The Federalist, an education research fellow at The - 21 - Matthew Robinson columnist for Stephens Media and the producer and Full-Time Fellowship-1999 host of “Unconventional Wisdom,” a public affairs Project: “Mobocracy: How the Media’s program carried by the Arkansas Educational Tele- Obsession with Polling Twists the vision Network (PBS). In 2008, his television pro- News, Alters Elections, and Under- gram earned an Award of Distinction from the Inter- mines Democracy.” Matt’s fellowship national Academy of the Visual Arts. He graduated work culminated in a book by the same title pub- from Ouachita University with a bachelor’s in po- lished in January 2002 by Prima Publishing, a divi- litical science and communications. His website is sion of Random House. He has served as a special is.gd/SenDavidJSanders. assistant for speechwriting to President George W. Bush. He has also served as a special assistant to two Read Mercer Schuchardt U.S. attorneys general, managing editor of Human Special Fellowship-1995 Events and guest opinion editor and writer for In- Project: “An analysis of the ‘Babies as vestor’s Business Daily in Los Angeles. He graduated Dolls’ phenomenon, also known as summa cum laude from the University of California the ‘ of the Baby,’ that has become at San Diego. From 2008 to 2016, he wrote speeches a part of American culture.” Read is and managed executive communications for Chair- associate professor of communication at Wheaton man Rex W. Tillerson and the management commit- College. He earned his doctorate in media ecology tee of ExxonMobil. He is currently director of execu- under Neil Postman at New York University. His fel- tive communications at Lockheed Martin, working lowship work, covering babies as commodities in with the chairman, president and CEO, Marillyn A. the American 90s, was published in Regeneration Hewson. He lives with his wife and three children in Quarterly and reprinted in Human Life Review. He Maryland. is the co-author of “Understanding Jacques Ellul” and editorial chair of Second Nature Journal found Catherine Edwards Sanders at secondnaturejournal.com. He and his wife, Ra- Full-Time Fellowship-2001 chel, have 10 children and one grandchild. Project: Catherine devoted her fellow- ship to researching a book on Wicca Todd Seavey and Neopaganism in America. Her Part-Time Fellowship-1997 book, “Wicca’s Charm,” was published Project: An essay series on “Tradition in the autumn of 2005 by Shaw Books, a division of and Reason,” examining areas such Random House. She has written for The Washing- as architecture, music, folk medicine ton Times, The Weekly Standard, Insight magazine, and psychology. Todd is the author of World magazine, National Review, Prism magazine, “ for Beginners” and has ghostwrit- The Christian Research Journal, Coastal Living and ten other books. He has also written or edited for “The McLaughlin Group” television program. Her various libertarian-friendly figures and venues, in- writing has generated local and national television cluding , the American Council on Sci- and radio appearances. Catherine has worked in ence and Health, Judge , Reason, government service at the Department of Justice National Review, New York Post, New York Press, and at the Corporation for National and Community LibertyIslandMag.com, SpliceToday.com and oth- Service. She worked for four year as a speechwriter ers. He has also written skeptical, pro-science pieces to the secretary of veterans affairs and is currently for Skeptical Inquirer, Spiked-Online and others. director of executive communications at Walmart. He has done voiceovers for television commercial She is a graduate of Wake Forest University and lives and political commentaries for WFUV radio and ap- in northwest Arkansas with her husband and two peared on multiple TV shows. His non-political, non- children. science writing has included Justice League comics, featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and David Sanders more, as well as humor pieces for Spy magazine Full-Time Fellowship-2005 and Radar. He hosts occasional and related Project: “The Reluctant Convert: Why events in New York City. He can be found on Blog- Arkansas Has Not Joined the South’s ger as ToddSeavey.com, on Twitter as @ToddSeavey Republican Realignment.” In 2012, and at .com/toddseavey, and he sometimes David was elected to the Arkansas State produces TV. He is a Brown University alumnus. Senate after serving a term in the Arkansas House of Representatives. He previously served as a political

- 22 - Bretigne Shaffer tor at Commentary magazine and founding editor Part-Time Fellowship-1997 in chief of Manolo for the Men, a popular men’s Project: “A series of articles exam- fashion blog. He served as director of social media ining Hong Kong as a model for a and alumni relations at The . He free-market economy.” Bretigne is a earned a bachelor’s degree at Columbia University, a writer, filmmaker and mother. She master’s degree at the University of Michigan and a served as an editorial page writer for The Asian Wall Juris Doctor at Yale University. Street Journal in Hong Kong and has published in The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Jour- Thomas Sileo nal, Barron’s and Reason magazine. She blogs at Alumni Fund Fellowship-2010 bretigne.com. Bretigne is the author of “Memoirs of Project: “The Unknown Soldiers: How a Gaijin,” “Why Mommy Loves the State” and “Ur- the Media Celebrates American Idols ban Yogini (A Superhero Who Can’t Use Violence).” and Ignores American Heroes.” Tom She studied economics at the University of Califor- is an author and award-winning mili- nia at Santa Cruz. She lives in Los Angeles with her tary writer who spent more than eight years in local husband and two children. and national newsrooms. He is a contributing senior editor at The Stream and co-author of Brothers For- ever (Da Capo Press, 2014) and Fire in My Eyes (Da Part-Time Fellowship-2006 Capo Press, 2016). Tom is currently writing his third Project: “Latter-day Saints in the book with Medal of Honor recipient Flo Groberg; “8 Policy Arena-The Political Influence Seconds of Courage” will be published by Simon & and Climate of Modern Mormonism.” Schuster in November 2017. Previously, Tom wrote Carrie is the founder of Bold, a digital a nationally syndicated newspaper column about the news and culture network. With Clay Aiken, Carrie heroism of U.S. troops, veterans and their families. co-hosts Bold TV, produced by Al Roker. She appears Before his independent writing career, Tom worked on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, MSNBC, at CNN, Tribune and two local TV stations. You can CNBC, HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, CBS, Fu- follow him on Twitter at @TSileo. sion and The Blaze. Carrie has published in The Wall Street Journal, TIME, USA TODAY, The New Stephanie Slade York Times and Washington Post. She interned for Part-Time Fellowship-2016 Robert Novak, later covering Congress for The Hill. Project: “The Politics of Religious Lib- A POLITICO founding reporter, Carrie contributed erty: How the Left is Driving a Wedge on political economy at Forbes, wrote editorials at Between Faith and Free Enterprise.” The Washington Times under and ad- Stephanie is the deputy managing edi- vised digital women’s site Bustle.com. Carrie earned tor of Reason Magazine. Prior to that, she was a free- a master’s in business policy from Harvard Univer- lance writer-editor and a regular contributor to U.S. sity and analyzed credit risk at Goldman Sachs and News & World Report. She was deputy research direc- Moody’s. She researched for Edward Conard, Bain tor at in Arlington, Virginia, and a Capital founding partner and American Enterprise project director at the Winston Group in Washington. Institute scholar, and was a Warren Brookes Journal- She served on the editorial staff of the Independent ism Fellow at Competitive Enterprise Institute. She Florida Alligator, a University of Florida student pub- earned a B.A. in communications at lication. In 2013, she was a finalist for the Bastiat Prize University and completed a Fulbright fellowship in for Journalism. Stephanie earned a bachelor’s degree Berlin. Media liaison for Silicon Harlem, Carrie is a in economics and political science from the University New York Leader with the Foreign Policy Initiative of Florida and a master’s in political communication and Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards Fellow. from the American University School of Public Affairs.

Justin Shubow Nick Slepko Part-Time Fellowship-2015 Alumni Fund Fellowship-1999 Project: “The Architecture of Ameri- Project: “To analyze philanthropy and can Democracy” explores the crucial the faith community in the Pacific connection between public architec- Northwest, where church attendance ture and American civilization. Justin is the lowest in America.” Nick divides is a blogger at Forbes and president of the National his time between and Istanbul where he Civic Art Society. Previously, he was assistant edi- works on several entrepreneurial ventures ranging

- 23 - from providing wireless fiber to the world’s major a city government reporter at The News Journal in metro areas, to developing infrastructure in the Wilmington, Delaware and at The Citizens’ Voice in Horn of Africa. He received a bachelor’s in geogra- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His work has also ap- phy from the University of Washington, and studied peared in The Wall Street Journal and on FoxNews. business and theology in Singapore and the Neth- com, among other media outlets. Staub graduated erlands. with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Penn State University and resides in New Freedom, Penn- Jaime Sneider sylvania. Alumni Fund Fellowship-2002 Project: “Notes From an Mark Stricherz Asylum.” Jaime has written articles Alumni Fund Fellowship-2003 for The New York Times, New York Project: “The Rise of the Latte Liber- Daily News and New York Post. After als: How the Democrats Embraced graduating from Columbia University in 2002, he Identity Politics and Abandoned their held a variety of positions including deputy associ- Base.” Mark is the capital- ate director of the White House Communications markets reporter for Congressional Quarterly. His Office, speechwriter to Bill Simon and researcher to work has appeared in The Atlantic, RealClearPolitics William F. Buckley, Jr. He graduated from Columbia and The Weekly Standard, among other publica- Law School in May 2008 after which he served as a tions. He is the author of “Why the Democrats are law clerk to Chief Judge Danny J. Boggs of the U.S. Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the Peo- Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is now a ple’s Party” (Encounter Books, 2007), which grew lawyer in New York. out of his 2003 fellowship. A native San Franciscan, he lives in Washington, D.C. with his two daughters. Mary Rose Somarriba Part-Time-Fellowship-2012 Peter Suderman Project: “Exploring the Connections Part-Time Fellowship-2010 between Pornography and Sex Traf- Project: “Markets in Medicine: The ficking.” Mary Rose is a writer and Virtues of Free Enterprise in Medi- culture editor for Verily magazine, cal Practice.” Peter is a senior editor a women’s fashion and lifestyle magazine based in of Reason magazine, where he writes New York (verilymag.com). She was honored in regularly on health care, the federal budget, tech 2009 with the Susan B. Anthony List’s Young Leader policy and pop culture. He is also a film critic for Award. Mary Rose received a bachelor’s in philoso- The Washington Times. Before joining Reason, Pe- phy from Providence College. She has spoken on her ter worked as a writer and editor at National Review, fellowship topic at such venues as Princeton Univer- the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Freedom- sity, Yale University, the University of Notre Dame Works, Doublethink and Culture11. His writing has and the College of William and Mary. Her writing appeared in The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, has appeared in Verily Magazine, First Things, The Newsweek.com, theAtlantic.com, Washington Ex- Human Life Review, Public Discourse, Acculturated, aminer, The Washington Times, The New Atlantis, and National Review Online. She currently lives in The American Conservative, Orange County Reg- Cleveland with her husband and two children ister and numerous other publications. He lives in Washington, D.C. Andrew Staub Part-Time Fellowship-2015 Project: “A Legacy of Prohibition: The Part-Time Fellowship-2012 fight to privatize Pennsylvania’s ar- Project: “As California Goes, So Goes chaic liquor monopoly by introducing the Nation: The Consequences of Fol- a free-market system to benefit state lowing Golden State Policy.” Kather- consumers.” Andrew is the communications special- ine is a journalist and commentator ist at the York County Convention & Visitors Bureau in New York City. She currently works as a reporter in York, Pennsylvania. He is also a freelance writer at National Review as well as a contributor to Fox for Our York Media and formerly worked as a report- News, making most of her appearances on The Greg er at the Pennsylvania Independent, a Watchdog.org Gutfeld Show. She’s also the host of The Kat Timpf public interest journalism website covering state Show, with new episodes airing every Monday on government in Harrisburg. He previously worked as Barstool Sports. Previously, Katherine worked as a

- 24 - reporter for Campus Reform, was a digital editor for Journal. She is the author of “I Know How She The Washington Times, the news anchor for NASA’s Does It,” “What the Most Successful People Do Be- Third Rock Radio and was a producer and reporter at fore Breakfast,” “168 Hours” and “All the Money in Total Traffic Network in Santa Ana, California. Kath- the World: What the Happiest People Know About erine has been a contributor to publications includ- Getting and Spending,” all published by Portfolio. ing The Orange County Register, Investor’s Business She graduated from Princeton University with a Daily and The Washington Times, and a featured co- bachelor’s from the Woodrow School of Pub- median on the morning drive radio show on Bal- lic and International Affairs. Her website is laura- timore’s 98 Rock. Prior to beginning her career in vanderkam.com. journalism, she held internships with Fox Business News and KFI News in California. She graduated Robert VerBruggen magna cum laude from Hillsdale College with a B.A. Alumni Fund Fellowship-2009 in English. She’s also performed stand-up comedy Project: “Race and the American Acad- at clubs throughout the country, including Gotham emy.” Robert examined how Ameri- Comedy Club in New York and The Improv in Los can universities study racism and Angeles. discrimination and what their results mean for public policy. Robert is managing editor of Katherine Truesdell The American Conservative. He previously worked Alumni Fund Fellowship-2009 at RealClearPolicy, National Review, The Washing- Project: “Caught in the Web: An Ex- ton Times and The National Interest. He received a ploration of the Left’s Power Online bachelor’s in journalism and political science from and What It Means for the Right.” Northwestern University, where he was editor-in- Katie is a 2012 graduate of New York chief of the Northwestern Chronicle. University’s Summer Publishing Institute and an in- dependent editorial and writing professional based Matthew Walther in Chicago. She previously held positions at the Chi- Part-Time Fellowship-2016 cago-based Illinois Policy Institute, Sam Adams Alli- Project: “They Couldn’t Have Done ance and Americans for . Katie the Math!: What the Decline of the earned a bachelor’s in American Studies at Hillsdale WASP Establishment and the Rise of College where she was editor of The Hillsdale Col- Meritocracy Means for American In- legian. stitutions.” Matthew is national correspondent for The Week. Previously, he was an associate editor at Rich Trzupek The Washington Free Beacon and an assistant edi- Part-Time Fellowship-2004 tor at The American Spectator. His freelance arti- Project: “An Examination of the Ef- cles and essays have appeared in The Spectator of fect of Environmental Regulatory London, First Things, National Review, The Weekly Excess on Small to Mid-size Busi- Standard, The American Conservative, The Daily nesses, in the Context of 30 years of Beast, The Washington Times, Prospect and Touch- Continued Environmental Progress in the United stone. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from States.” Rich writes for Big Journalism, Big Holly- Northern Michigan University. wood, FrontPage Magazine and is a columnist and reporter for Examiner Publications, a chain of news- Michael Warren papers serving Chicago’s northwest suburbs. He has Part-Time-Fellowship-2012 two decades of experience in environmental science Project: “Race to Opportunity: How and regulation and holds a bachelor’s in chemistry Modern Liberalism is Failing Minorities from Loyola University of Chicago. and What Has to Offer.” Michael is a staff writer at The Weekly Laura Vanderkam Standard, where he primarily covers the White House Full-Time Fellowship-2006 and the new administration. A graduate of Vander- Project: “Full Court Press: The 25- bilt University, his writing has also been featured in Year Battle to Win the Judiciary.” The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Laura works as a freelance writer in Acculturated.com, The Washington Times, Wash- the Philadelphia area. Her work has ington Examiner and City Journal. He makes appeared in many publications including Fast Com- regular appearances on television and radio and has pany, Fortune, USA TODAY and The Wall Street been a guest on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN

- 25 - and EWTN. Michael lives with his family in northern studied political science at the George Washington Virginia. University in Washington, D.C.

Tate Watkins Christopher White Part-Time-Fellowship-2012 Part-Time Fellowship-2013 Project: “Open Borders as Engines Project: “How Reproductive Tech- of American Wealth and Innovation nologies Pose Serious Threats to the Creation.” Tate is a research and pub- Traditional Family Unit.” Christopher lications fellow at the Property and is the director of Catholic Voices USA Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Mon- and a contributor for Crux. He holds an M.A. in eth- tana. Watkins worked with small-scale farmers in ics and society from Fordham University and a B.A. the Haitian coffee sector for two years, helping set in politics, philosophy and economics from The up an initiative to boost growers’ coffee production, King’s College. His writings have appeared in The quality and livelihoods. Prior to that, he worked as a Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Forbes, Washing- freelance journalist in Haiti reporting on economic ton Post, , International Busi- development, foreign aid and immigration for a va- ness Times, The American Interest, First Things,and riety of print and web outlets. He earned M.A. and Human Life Review, among many other print and B.A. degrees in economics from Clemson University, online publications. He lives in New York City. served in the Peace Corps in Senegal and spent two years researching economics and public policy in Heather Wilhelm Washington, D.C. Alumni Fund Fellowship-2005 Project: “Unholy Alliance? Govern- Beth Henary ment, Religion, and Ideology in Part-Time Fellowship-2002 America.” Heather is a weekly colum- Project: “No More Favorites?” She nist for RealClearPolitics.com and a produced a series of articles on the senior contributor at The Federalist. Her syndicat- state of racial preferences in college ed column appears in the , Dallas admissions and the rise of the diversi- Morning News, The Stream and additional outlets ty rationale for . Beth is a practic- nationwide. Heather’s work also appears in Na- ing financial advisor and writes on financial topics tional Review, Commentary magazine and The Wall under her own name and as a ghost writer. Prior Street Journal. She sits on the board of governors to her entry into the financial services industry, she for Opportunity International, a Chicago-based mi- served as the executive director of a trade associa- crofinance group providing small business loans to tion in Texas. After college, she began her writing impoverished entrepreneurs around the world. She career as an editorial assistant at The Weekly Stan- holds a master’s in social sciences from the Univer- dard and has held other editorial positions in daily sity of Chicago and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a and weekly journalism, leading teams to numerous bachelor’s in English from Northwestern University. media awards from state press and trade associa- Her work is available at heatherwilhelm.com. tions. Her writing and reviews have appeared in The Weekly Standard, Planning, Dallas Morning News Jonathan “Yoni” Wilkenfeld and Houston Chronicle. She received her bachelor’s Part-Time Fellowship-2016 degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Project: “Long Gone: Civil Asset For- master’s from the University of Texas at Arlington. feiture in the 21st Century.” Yoni is a researcher, writer, editor and marketer Sarah Westwood for Iambic Enterprises in Washington, Part-Time Fellowship-2015 D.C. He previously was an intern at Poland Today in Project: “Robbing Robin Hood: How Warsaw and also wrote freelance articles on Polish insider firms make billions off the life and culture for PL Journal, The Forward and The U.S. Agency for International Devel- Jewish News. He also interned at the New York Press, opment.” Sarah’s fellowship project publishers of neighborhood newspapers in New York explores the nexus of international goodwill and City. In college, he served as executive editor of The virtually unlimited funding and the contractors that Kenyon Observer. Yoni graduated magna cum laude exploit the system to profit immensely. Sarah works from Kenyon College with a bachelor’s degree in po- as a White House correspondent at the Washington litical science. Examiner, covering the new administration. She - 26 - Pamela Winnick Christine Won Part-Time Fellowship-2001 Full-Time-Fellowship-2012 Project: “Examination of How Media Project: A book project, “North Korea: and Established Scientists Treat the - A Better Understanding.” Christine Subject of Evolution,” analyzing the was based in Asia while working on dispute over the teaching of evolution. her 2012 fellowship project. Currently Pam is now a freelance journalist whose first book, she is an editor at The ABIS Group. Previously she “A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion” covered city government and crime at The Journal was released in 2005. Previously, she was a report- Times in Racine, Wisconsin. Christine has won the er for the Post-Gazette. She received a Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s 2012 Open Re- bachelor’s in English from the State University of cords Award as well as the 2011 Open Records Scoop New York at Buffalo, a master’s in English from the of the Year Award. She held reporting internships at University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor from Co- the Orange County Register and Star. lumbia University, where she was an editor of the Christine received a bachelor’s in news-editorial law review and a Stone Scholar. After practicing law journalism with a minor in English from the Uni- for several years, Pam decided to pursue a journal- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ism career, earning a master’s in journalism from Columbia University in 1999. Pam and her husband, syndicated columnist Jack Kelly, are working on a historical novel about the American Revolution. Her website is pamelarwinnick.blogspot.com.

Isaac Wolf Alumni Fund Fellowship-2006 Project: “A magazine-length article on America’s efforts to replace petro- leum as the transportation industry’s mainfuel source.” Isaac is a national reporter at Scripps Howard. Covering consumer is- sues, he has written about topics ranging from food stamp fraud to children held for years in adult jails to radioactive ladies handbags. Isaac’s reporting fo- cuses on Freedom of Information requests and data analysis, primarily through SPSS and Microsoft Ex- cel. He also conducts interviews for Scripps’ TV affil- iates and edits wire content for the Scripps Howard News Service. He has received multiple awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writ- ers (SABEW). In 2010, Isaac was named a finalist in the Livingston Awards for young for an investigation of how loose radioactive material has made its way into various consumer products. Prior to joining Scripps Howard in 2008, Isaac was a staff writer at the Daily Southtown newspaper in suburban Chicago. He received first place in the Il- linois Press Association’s news reporting contest for exhaustive interviews with a firefighter who claimed for years to have been serving in the U.S. military but was actually working for a contractor. Isaac at- tended the University of Chicago, where he studied economics. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife.

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