Before DHS, Zemek was served as Chief of Staff for the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security. He earned both his bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Minnesota by the age of 22. Bush and in their 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992 presidential campaigns. Alex Zemek from McLean, Virginia, and serves as a Senior Fellow in the Center for Homeland Security & Immigration at AFPI. They have two children and three grandchildren. He holds personal and unit decorations, as well as the Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest noncareer civilian award of the Department. Richard V. Burkhauser is from Austin, Texas, and serves as a Member on AFPIs Board of Academic Advisors. And they have no respect for the status quo. In 2011, he became the Chief of Staff to the co-Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Dr. Heidi Overton is from Gallup, New Mexico, and serves as AFPIs Chief Policy Officer and Director, Center for Healthy America. She studied biology and chemistry at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Elizabethtown College before receiving her Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Life Chiropractic College. By providing your information, you become a member of America First Policy Institute and consent to receive emails. Wolf has written and speaks frequently on national security, border security, immigration, China, counterterrorism issues. The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.. Fred Fleitz was chief of staff of the National Security Council in the Trump administration and . The newly minted nonprofit is called the America First Policy Institute and boasts a staff of 35 former Trump aides, including former Cabinet secretaries, top national security advisers and . Before entering public service, Lotter spent 13 years as a producer and manager for television stations across the country. Governor Bryant served as Chairman of the Education Commission of the States; Chairman of the Southern States Energy Board; Chairman of Jobs for Americas Graduates; and Chairman of the Royal Commonwealth Society of the United States. In this role, Lawson handled matters as diverse as deceptive marketing, enforcement of financial regulations, and data security. The future is for those who prepare for it today.. Overton graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Health, Medicine, and Human Values from UNMs Combined BA/MD Program, received her medical degree from the UNM School of Medicine, and obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. In her free time, Cate enjoys volunteering at local schools, teaching spin classes, and drinking obscene amounts of caffeine. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.. Prior to his service at DHS, he spent over 10 years in the private sector helping clients manage risks and earlier in his career worked on Capitol Hill. He has served as an author and contributor on Fox News and CNN. Lou Holtz is originally from East Liverpool, Ohio, and serves as the Chair of the Center for 1776 at AFPI. She attended St. Johns University, where she studied Health and Human Services. Dr. Hassett is currently Vice President of the Lindsey Group, a visiting distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution, an economic contributor at CNN, and senior advisor to Capital Matters, the economic web site of National Review. Steven Smith's Phone Number and Email Last Update. He was a member of the Presidential Transition Team and the Trump campaign policy team. Kellogg has wide-ranging experience in Europe, the Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. Kudlow describes himself as a Reagan supply-sider and is a staunch advocate for free markets, tax cuts, and deregulation. Michael J. Rigas is from Boston, Massachusetts, and serves as the Director of the American Leadership Initiative at AFPI. Lawson is admitted to practice law in Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, IZA Research Fellow, and NBER Research Associate. He advised the National Economic Commission in 1987 and served as a research director for President Ronald Reagan's Commission on Privatization. Chief of Staff at America First Policy Institute . Frederick H. Fleitz, Jr. (born February 24, 1962) is a former U.S. government official, serving since January 2022 as Vice Chairman of the America First Policy Institute Center for American Security. Share Watch on Litigation Perry is a veteran of the United States Air Force, having flown C-130 tactical airlift aircraft in Europe and the Middle East and remains passionate about supporting the active duty and veteran community. She is the Founder and former President of The Polling Company, Inc./WomanTrend, a privately held, woman-owned corporation she operated from 1995 to 2016. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. Before heading CFPL, Sanders was the director of regulatory studies at Locke, where he also served as research editor. The greatest beneficiaries of capitalism are those at the bottom of the income ladder.. He and his wife, Brittany Thune Lindberg, have two great kids, John Mark and Lucy. This unit is responsible for enforcing Floridas little FTC Act, the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA). She is also the Taube Professor for International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon Universitys Institute for Politics and Strategy. Trump to Headline 'America First' Policy Summit In his free time, he enjoys reading about history, listening to music, hiking, and visiting historic landmarks and museums. He graduated from Samford University with a BA in religion and from Knox Seminary with a masters in divinity. In his free time, Whitaker enjoys traveling, being on the water, riding horses, and hiking, and he regularly returns to Tennessee to spend time with his family and friends. The brave man inattentive to his duty is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.. Overton loves living in our nations capital and enjoys traveling to see family and friends around the country, especially going back home, where she gets her fill of New Mexico red and green chile and can improve her favorite new hobby golf in the bright blue skies and sunshine of the high desert. Alexandra Caro Campana is from Fort Collins, Colorado, and serves as the Director of the Center for 1776 and Director of the Center for Opportunity Now at AFPI. Center for New Frontiers - America First Policy Our guiding principles are liberty, free enterprise, national greatness, American military superiority, foreign-policy engagement in the American interest, and the primacy of American workers, families, and communities in all . in history and international relations from Penn State University and enjoys music, playing guitar, arthouse and documentary movies, and spending time with his nieces and nephews. Her reporting largely focuses on cultural and social issues such as gender ideology, education, and religious liberty. She currently resides in Washington, D.C., and loves to visit her family and travel to new places whenever she can. Paula White-Cain was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and serves as the Chair of the Center for American Values at AFPI. Jase Panebianco is from Selden, New York, and serves as an Associate Attorney for the Constitutional Litigation Partnership at AFPI. Oliver McPherson-Smith is from Sydney, Australia, and serves as a Senior Fellow in the Center for Energy& Environment at AFPI. Panebianco graduated from Antonin Scalia Law School in May 2022 with his Juris Doctorate. Lavorgna is an avid golfer, and his wife is from the great state of Michigan. Previously, he served as the Chief of Staff and Chief Strategy Officer at the Export-Import Bank during the Trump Administration. Acts of courage and acts of obedience shift history for nations.. Schuster earned a degree in politics and journalism from Hillsdale College. Olidort recently served in the Office of the Vice President, where he contributed to the federal response to COVID-19. She attended the University of Colorado, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Beckham received her masters degree at Syracuse University in Broadcast Journalism and Digital Media, where she covered the 2016 presidential election, sparking her passion for politics. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Jon Sanders hails from Raleigh, North Carolina, and serves as a Senior Fellow in the Center for American Prosperity at AFPI. Caity Durning is from Matawan, New Jersey, and serves as the Events Coordinator at AFPI. Joseph has over 25 years of financial services experience. Jeremiah Wallace is from Chattanooga, Tennessee, and serves as a Development Coordinator at AFPI. Fleitzs last book. All the greatest things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honor; Duty; Mercy; Hope.. Smith is daydreaming about the final frontier of space, playing saxophone to the detriment of his neighbors, hiking new trails, and rooting on the Cleveland Browns, Dayton Flyers, and the Kentucky Wildcats. He started his journey with CKE as founder Carl Karchers personal attorney in 1986; Puzder became CEO in 2000 and led the company out of serious financial difficulties. Lindberg has a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Public Policy, both from the University of Maryland. He also is a veteran and volunteers for many youth-related programs. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.. Adam W. Schindler was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and serves as Chief Digital Officer at AFPI. He has taught economics as an adjunct instructor for the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University and the Tillman School of Business at Mount Olive University. Shirkman previously served as the Senior Assistant to the President for Donor Relations at The Heritage Foundation where he worked with major gift donors in the Northeast and Southwest regions of the country. He enjoys Hermeneutics, hunting, and traveling the world with his wife of 53 years. He was senior captain of the debate team, finishing his senior year as the highest-ranked collegiate debater in the United States among several hundreds of competitors. He received a bachelors degree in international political economy from the University of Texas at Dallas and an M.P.P degree from Pepperdines School of Public Policy in Malibu, California. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.. Do what is hard and life will be easy. Allison Schuster is from Clarendon Hills, Illinois, and serves as a Communications Specialist and Policy Advisor to the Center for Education Opportunity at AFPI. Wolf is a former Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and currently a Member of the Texas Public Policy Foundation Border Security Coalition. Trump to return to Washington for the first time since leaving - Axios He even was drawn upon at times to run the televised White House press briefings. He is the author or editor of seven books. He also earned certificates from the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and the University of Cambridge in International Relations and Politics. The author of a dozen books, he has led the College of the Ozarks in emphasizing its goal of patriotic education. Previously, she founded and directed these entities at Carnegie Mellon University: the Center for International Relations and Politics, the Carnegie Mellon University Washington Semester Program, the Institute for Politics and Strategy, and the Institute for Strategic Analysis. Previously, he worked at the Republican National Committee as a Business Intelligence Analyst. Lavorgna is also the Chief Economist of the Americas at Natixis, a firm he joined after serving as Special Assistant to the President and Chief Economist of the National Economic Council during the Trump Administration.