Abigail Narbe, a New York native living in Washington, D.C. Abigail earned her bachelor’s degree at The King’s College in New York City, studying Economics, Politics, and Philosophy. Abigail writes about the social impact of economics and urbanism. She writes about school choice, education & urban policy.

Adam Barsouk is an award-winning cancer researcher, medical student and best-selling author whose writing has been featured in Forbes, Fox News and more. Calling upon his experience in medicine and his heritage as the son of Soviet refugees, Adam advocates for liberty in healthcare, education and around the world.

Amelia Irvine is a contributor for Young Voices, and her work has appeared in USA Today, The Federalist, and National Review. She currently works for AEI Ideas, the policy blog for the American Enterprise Institute. Amelia studies economics and government at Georgetown University, where she is writing an honors thesis on how social welfare spending affects religiosity. Her pro-life and pro-family advocacy on campus earned her the 2018 Living the Arete Life award from the Alliance Defending Freedom.

She received Young Voices’ 2018 Campus Pundit Award for an opinion piece defending gun rights on campus. She has worked for USA Today, the Foundation for Government Accountability, Jamestown Associates, and Congressman David Schweikert. Amelia hails from sunny Phoenix, Arizona and directed a congressional campaign in AZ-01 in the summer of 2016.

Anthony DiMauro is a freelance writer based out of New York City. His work has appeared in Bold TV and the Federalist. He is an alumni of the National Journalism Center and student at New York University. His interests focus on higher education, regulatory policy, and international affairs.

A California native, Ashley received her bachelor’s degree in linguistics from California State University San Bernardino before moving to Michigan.

Ashley writes about tech policy and the impact it has on economic mobility, the future of work and productivity.

Bradley Polumbo is an Assistant Editor with Young Voices and an online contributor to the National Review. He is a former editor and columnist for the Massachusetts Daily Collegian, the largest daily student newspaper in New England. His work has landed him in National Review, Fox News and on Glenn Beck, the Kirby Wilbur radio show and more. Brad hosts the Hot Takes Podcast.

Charlie is a senior majoring in Communications at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. HE became active in politics after volunteering at the Iowa for Rand Paul weekend caucus. Key highlights of Charlie’s liberty activism have been becoming the Midwest Regional Director for Students For Liberty, introducing Gary Johnson at his 2016 rally in Minneapolis, and running for mayor of Minneapolis in 2017.

Christian Watson is currently a freshman at Mercer University pursuing a double-major in Philosophy and Journalism. During high school, he fought against the arrest of his former high school teacher and advocated for his acquittal, and also defended free speech. He writes for the Mercer Cluster and uses his position on the Mercer Debate Team to actively promote classical liberal thought.

Dan King is Young Voices contributor, digital communications professional & writer residing in Arlington, Virginia. He is a Niagara University alumnus, where he helped form the Niagara University College Libertarian chapter.

Dan writes extensively on issues of surveillance, privacy and civil liberties. He’s been published in The American Conservative, Reason, The Weekly Standard, The Week and has been seen on FOX 5 DC and CRTV’s “Kibbe On Liberty”.

Daniel was born and raised in Venezuela, where he went to high school and experienced firsthand the consequences of their socialist regime. In 2016, Daniel was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to attend Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where he is currently a junior majoring in Quantitative Economics. During his two years in college, Daniel has worked part-time at the Office of International Affairs, presided his residential council, and founded the Model United Nations student group. He is currently an intern at Economic Policies for the 21st century, part of the Manhattan Institute. 

David Doerr is a senior at Hillsdale College pursuing a double major in political science and history. He hails from Bad Axe, Michigan and is the oldest to ten children. David was an intern with Young Voices in 2018

Elias Atienza is a California-based writer who graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a BA in History. His writing centers around foreign policy and criminal justice reform.

Elise Amez-Droz works in healthcare policy. Her research focuses on devising models for the healthcare industry of tomorrow and assessing the impact of state legislation on healthcare access and quality. She graduated with a master’s degree from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in 2018 and completed her undergraduate education in Switzerland, where she also worked in market research at a pharmaceutical startup.

Elisabeth Eigerman is a sophomore at Mount Holyoke College studying Religion and Data Science. In addition to having written for the Jewish Women’s Archive, she makes video essays for her YouTube Channel, Sappho of Lesbos. Her passions include Theology, Sexual Ethics, and Public Discourse.

Jacob Bruggeman is an honors student in his fourth year at Miami University with majors in history and political science. He was recently honored for his research as one of fifteen national recipients of the Gilder Lehrman History Scholar award, and he is one of two Joanna Jackson Goldman Scholars at Miami.

Outside of the classroom, Jacob is a Graduate Assistant at Miami University’s Center for Public Management and Regional Affairs, an Associate Editor of the Cleveland Review of Books, a co-Book Review Editor of The Metropole, and the Editor-in-Chief of The New Herald.

Jen is currently a policy analyst at the Pension Integrity Project of the Reason Foundation. Prior to joining Reason, Jen has received an MA in Economics and MA in Political Science from Stony Brook University, where she also held the position of the President of graduate student government. In addition to that, Jen has interned for the Cato Institute and the United Nations.

Jerrod A. Laber is a Washington-based foreign policy writer and journalist, who also writes about Appalachia, issues of race in America, arts & culture, and cities. His work has been published in Defense One, the Washington Examiner, The National Interest, The American Conservative, the Columbus Dispatch, Real Clear Defense, and 100 Days in Appalachia, among other outlets. Previously, he was a Writing Fellow with America’s Future Foundation, and a Free Society Fellow with Young Voices.

Jordan Lancaster is a student at Wake Forest University majoring in political science and communications. She served as the digital director of the Wake Forest Review and works on the digital team for the American Conservative Coalition, a conservative environmentalist group.

Kristiana Bolzman is a grant-writer for a non-partisan think tank in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied politics and journalism at Hillsdale College, graduated from The Heritage Foundation’s Young Leaders Program, served at Fox News and on Capitol Hill, and is a Generation Liberty Fellow at the State Policy Network.

Leonard Robinson is an aspiring journalist passionate about criminal justice, religious liberty, free speech, and education. An alumni of the National Journalism Center, his works have been featured in Reason and Washington Examiner. His hobbies include golfing, traveling, and absorbing great works of literature.

Michael Rieger graduated with honors from the University of Michigan, with a B.A. in history. His undergraduate thesis on economic reconstruction in postwar Japan won both the Arthur Fondiler Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis and the William P. Malm Award for Outstanding Student Writing in Japanese Studies.

He has also worked as an intern at the Cato Institute and in the U.S. House of Representatives. He currently works at a law firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Phil Haunschild split his childhood between the small fishing town of Homer, Alaska and the sprawling tropical metropolis of Manila, Philippines. Boise, Idaho has since become home, where he attended university and now works at the Idaho Freedom Foundation as the Senior Policy Analyst. Phil focuses on regulatory policy, occupational licensure, blockchain solutions for government, and tax-increment-financing.

Pranjal Drall hails from New Delhi and is a sophomore at Grinnell College where he studies Math and Economics. Pranjal is a techno-optimist and advocates for public policy frameworks that allow for permissionless innovation. He is a Policy Fellow at TechFreedom, a post-partisan think-tank in Washington, where he focuses on telecom, internet freedom, and emerging technologies. At Grinnell, he is a Research Assistant in the Economics Department, the Policy Head of the newly revived Grinnell Republicans, and a member of the Men’s Tennis Team.

Ross Marchand is the director of policy for the Taxpayers Protection Alliance. Ross is an alumni of the Mercatus MA Fellowship, and received his master’s degree in economics from George Mason University. He has interned at FreedomWorks, ALEC, and the Lithuanian Free Market Institute.

Tom is a third year undergraduate studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Warwick. He is most interested in poverty alleviation, free speech on campus and education policy.

Tyler Grant is a lawyer in NYC. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and University of Virginia School of Law. Tyler is a former Fulbright Fellow to Taiwan.

His work focuses on China, technology and legal affairs and has appeared in National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Hill, The National Interest and he’s appeared on FOX 5 DC, ABC 7, Newsy, Sirius XM and WMAL.

Nolan Gray is an advisor for The Center for Market Urbanism and a city planner in NY. He holds a masters in city & regional planning from Rutgers University. His areas of expertise include land-use regulation, development, and urban planning theory.

Nolan’s work has been featured in City Lab, Forbes, The Guardian and he won the 2018 Young Voices Award, presented by Reason for impactful scholarship by writers under 30.

Lindsay Marchello grew up in Georgia where she studied English Literature and Political Science at Columbus State University. Her interest in journalism and politics led her to intern at Reason Magazine. She currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina where she is an Associate Editor at the Carolina Journal.

Satya is a Sydney-based writer and Director of Policy at the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance. He contributes regularly to The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun and Spectator in Australia and has been published internationally in The Hill, The Verdict and Svensk Tdskrifft. He has been featured on Radio and TV, has reviewed state and federal budgets and also provided analysis on a range of policy areas including tax reform, foreign relations, public health and civil liberties. He also appears regularly before state and federal parliamentary and senate inquiries to provide evidence on policies impacting Australia’s economic prosperity and social freedoms.

Matt Liles is an International Relations major at the University of Texas at Austin. He is from the Dallas area and was previously a Community Voices contributor to the Dallas Morning News. In Austin, Matt interns within the Texas State Senate.

Molly is a Policy Analyst at Libertas Institute, a free market think tank in Utah. Choosing the mountains over the great lakes, she first moved from her beloved state of Michigan to attend Rocky Mountain College in Montana. After graduating, she moved to Utah where she helps author legislation and push for positive government reforms.

Patrick is a sophomore at the University of Maryland, where he is studying journalism. Outside of the classroom, he is the Director of Talent Management at Lone Conservative and a contributor to Catholic Link. He is a former student journalist for WMAR ABC-2 News in Baltimore and former intern at the Media Research Center. When not immersed in politics, he is probably watching his hometown Ravens or Orioles.

Alexander C. R. Hammond is a researcher at a Washington D.C. think tank & Senior Fellow for African Liberty. He frequently writes about economic freedom, globalization and human well-being. Hammond’s works have been translated into multiple languages and have appeared in; Reason, CapX, El Cato, Academia Liberalismo Económico, Foundation for Economic Education, Contrepoints and Newsweek USA. He is a graduate of History and Politics, from the University of Exeter.

Ryan Khurana is Executive Director of the Institute for Advancing Prosperity, a non-profit focusing on the social impacts of technology. He previously worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. He is a graduate of the University of Manchester, where his dissertation was on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the labour force. He lives in Toronto, Canada

Sam Peak graduated from Park University in Kansas City, Missouri with a BA in political science. He has done policy research for the Cato Institute and the American Legislative Exchange Council. Sam’s work has been featured in the American Conservative, the Federalist, and the Kansas City Star.

Stephen Lusk is a public policy researcher and political writer in Liberty, Mississippi.

Matthew Larosiere is a legal associate at a Washington, D.C. think tank. He writes on the subject of the 2nd Amendment, gun law, taxation and gun violence. His work has been featured in National Review, Cato Blog, Fox Nation, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and more.

Matthew graduated cum laude from the University of Alabama with a J.D. and Master of Laws in Taxation. During law school, he served as the president of the Federalist Society and the ethics opinion editor of the Journal of the Legal Profession. He holds a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Central Florida.

John Kristof is a freelance policy writer from Chicago and a senior at Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU) pursuing a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Economics and Honors Humanities. Previously, John interned at the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI), mainly writing on fiscal issues and government efficiency, reaching over 100,000 unique readers. Before his stint at IPI, John was a Junior Fellow at the Illinois Family Institute, where he wrote on religion and politics, conducted political research and launched the Illinois Family Spotlight podcast. At IWU, John serves on three student government committees and works as an assistant in the Department of Economics.

Alex Muresianu is a student at Tufts University and treasurer of the College Republicans chapter. He is pursuing a degree in economics, and also contributes to Lone Conservative, a website for conservatives in college and graduate school, on which he covers a mix of cultural issues and economic policy.

A military brat, Christian grew up in West Point, NY and earned a B.A. from Messiah College with a double major in philosophy and economics. He currently does policy research for the Foundation for Government Accountability and the Pioneer Institute. Christian’s work has been featured in multiple publications such as the Washington Examiner and the Daily Caller. He also is a singer/songwriter and a die-hard fan of The Office.

John Dale Grover is the Assistant Editor at The National Interest. He writes for Young Voices and is a Fellow with Defense Priorities. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, John has a B.A. in Government and Legal Studies, with a focus on International Relations, from Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. He also has a M.S. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.

His work on foreign affairs can be found in Forbes, RealClearWorld, RealClearDefense, The American Conservative, Fox News and in a variety of national security outlets. Grover’s whole portfolio can be found here. Follow him on Twitter @JohnDaleGrover.