Abigail Hall is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. She is an affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, an affiliated scholar with the Foundation for Economic Education, and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute. Hall is the coauthor of Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism, published by Stanford University Press in 2018. Her work includes topics surrounding the U.S. military and national defense, including, domestic police militarization, arm sales, weapons as foreign aid, the cost of military mobilization, and the political economy of military technology.

Alexander William Salter is an economics professor in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University and the Comparative Economics Research Fellow at TTU’s Free Market Institute. He is the author of more than 150 academic and popular articles. 

Alexandra Hudson is an award-winning writer based in Indianapolis, currently working on a book on civility and American civic renewal. She earned a Masters degree in Social Policy at the London School of Economics as a Rotary Scholar and has served at the local, state and federal levels of government and public policy—most recently holding an appointment at the US Department of Education in policy under Betsy DeVos.

Now a full-time writer, speaker, and consultant, she has appeared on Fox News and CBS News + contributes to USA Today The Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, The Washington Examiner, and other national outlets. Hudson has signed a book deal with St Martins Press for Against Politeness: Why Politeness Failed American & Civility Can Save it & is the slated contributing editor of a new magazine being launched by Francis Fukuyama called the American Purpose. 

Originally from the UK, Alice Calder has spent the last few years working at liberty-focused organizations in London and the USA and now explores these ideas while travelling globally. She holds an MA in Economics from George Mason University and a Bachelor’s in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Exeter. She is a regular contributor for TradeVistas where she writes on trade policy and trends. Her other areas of interest are economic sociology, development, and the intersection of economics and culture.

Amy Lutz received a Bachelor’s Degree in History from St. Louis University in 2013. In August 2020, she will graduate from the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Her primary areas of research include Holocaust rescue and resistance, rumor studies, and World War II propaganda. She is currently a social media and outreach consultant based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Brad Polumbo is a Senior Contributor to Young Voices, contributing columnist for the Washington Examiner, and the Opinion Editor for FEE.org. He was previously a staff writer and editor at the Washington Examiner. His writing has also appeared in outlets including USA Today, the Daily Beast, National Review, and the Boston Globe. He has appeared numerous times on Fox News, Fox Business, and national radio programs.

He hosts the podcast Breaking Boundaries with Brad Polumbo

Charles Amos is Leader of The Opposition on East Grinstead Town Council and former President of the King’s College London Conservative Association. Throughout his writings, he consistently opposes government intervention and champions the case for freedom, self-ownership and private property. In the past he has worked with the TaxPayers’ Alliance, Leave.EU, and the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Connor holds an MA in English and American Literature from the University of Kent. He is the Policy Director for the British Conservation Alliance: the largest university campus climate action network in the UK. He writes often on environmental, economic, political, and pop-cultural affairs for publications like the Mallard, CapX, and on his blog. 

Cooper Conway attends the Boise State University Honors College, where he is earning his Bachelor of Science in political science with an emphasis on American government and public policy. He has served as an intern for the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., where he provided research for the Ed Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and the AEIdeas Blog. He has also served as a research associate for the Cascade Policy Institute in Portland, Oregon.

Dan King is a Young Voices senior contributor, activist and freelance journalist focused extensively on surveillance, privacy, policing, and criminal justice reform. He’s been published in the likes of The American Conservative, National Review, Reason, The Weekly Standard, The Week and has been seen on Newsy, FOX 5 DC, and “Kibbe On Liberty”.

King co-hosts Some Politics Podcast

Daniel was born and raised in Venezuela, where he experienced firsthand life under the Maduro regime. In 2016, Daniel was awarded a full-tuition scholarship and has since graduated from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He serves on the outreach council of Bienvenido, a non-profit that is dedicated to conservatism within the Hispanic community. 

As an economics policy writer and activist, Daniel has been featured on CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, Economics 21, The National Interest and has met with President Trump upon invitation to the White House for an Oval Office forum on socialism.

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.

Emilie Dye recently moved to Sydney, Australia to work as the Director of Policy for the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance. She graduated from George Washington University in Washington, DC with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. She regularly contributes to the Spectator Australia, the Daily Telegraph, and numerous local papers, and appears regularly on TV and radio in Australia.

Eric Peterson is a native of the Land of Lincoln before attending Tulane University. After school, he worked for a variety of think tanks in Washington DC focusing on issues such as cronyism and free speech. He recently returned to New Orleans to join the Pelican Institute and created a center for Technology and Innovation dedicated to bringing more forward thinking policies to the Pelican State.

Evan Cooney received a Bachelor’s Degree in Politics and Policy from Liberty University in 2017. After experience in the non-profit sector, and interning in the U.S. Senate, Evan moved to Alexandria, Virginia. He is currently a Public Relations/Affairs specialist in the D.C. area and has professional experience contributing in the areas of Foreign Policy, and Economics.

Fiona Harrigan is a political writer with Young Voices based in Arizona. Fiona has worked for think-tanks such as Strata Policy and the Foundation for Economic Education and is an alumna of the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange. She currently serves as a copy editor for Reason Magazine and is a contributing voice to the Wall Street Journal’s Noted project.

Gabriela Bernal is a Korean affairs analyst specializing in North Korea’s domestic and foreign policies, US-DPRK relations, and US foreign policy in the Asia Pacific. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, South Korea.

George Gemelas is the Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Students for Carbon Dividends (S4CD). He is currently pursuing a bachelor’s-master’s degree at the Yale School of the Environment where he works at the Yale Center for Environment Law and Policy and coordinates the Yale Environmental Dialogue.

In addition to building out bipartisan support for market-based climate action, George is a proud member of the Greek-American community. He is interested in energy innovation, free speech, and the Midwest (specifically his home state, Indiana).

Georgia studied History at King’s College London with a study abroad program at the George Washington University. From August 2019 she has worked as UK Campus Associate for The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting & Analysis.

As a freelance writer, she has written for The Times of Israel, Lone Conservative, Jewish News Syndicate, The Imaginative Conservative, The Common Sense Network, The Critic, The Guardian, Spiked Online, Speak Freely, Algemeiner Journal, The Article, Backbench and The Broad Online. She has been interviewed by The Telegraph, National Review, ITV News London, Co.z and the Jewish Chronicle.

She is also an associate writer for Foundation for Uyghur Freedom, as well as Assistant Editor for The Mallard, external communications officer for the British Conservation Alliance, and an Intern for the E2 Review Podcast.

She was formerly the President of the King’s College London Libertarian Society, and an intern for the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development.

Grayson Quay is a freelance writer based in Arlington, VA. He earned his MA in English literature from Georgetown University in 2019. His writing has been published in The American Conservative, Reason, The National Interest, and the Spectator US. 

Hannah Downey is the policy director at PERC (the Property and Environment Research Center) in Bozeman, Montana. She writes on how we can solve environmental problems through property rights and markets rather than relying on government regulations. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Salt Lake Tribune, and more.

Hugo Dante is an experienced policy analyst in the DC area who specializes in banking. He is a graduate of George Mason University where he was awarded an MA Fellowship with the Mercatus Center and also holds a bachelors degree in chemistry from the University of North Alabama’s Honors College where he was elected as the student body president. Hugo grew up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and is a is a U.S citizen and an immigrant from Mexico

Isaac holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago. He has worked in criminal justice reform advocacy in his home state of Michigan and in economic research at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Jakob Puckett’s lifelong passion is finding and communicating ideas that help people improve their lives. Currently, he works toward that as an energy and transportation policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute in St. Louis. 

James Czerniawski is a policy analyst at Libertas Institute, a free-market think tank in Utah. he writes about consumer data privacy, cybersecurity, and technology and innovation issues. His work has been published in Real Clear Future, The Morning Consult, Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune.

Jason Reed is an undergraduate Sociology student at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE). As a freelance writer, he has written for national and international outlets including The Times, The Independent, The i Paper, Prospect Magazine, Conservative Home, TheArticle, Spiked, CapX, Reaction, Brexit Central and many more.

He is also Digital Director of the British Conservation Alliance, an environmental campaign organization that is affiliated with the American Conservation Coalition, as well as Deputy Editor of neoliberal opinion site 1828, Head of Policy and Campaigns at Centre Think Tank and President of current affairs magazine, The London Globalist. He is Treasurer of his university Conservative society and founding editor of its official journal, The Tamworth. He was formerly the Senior Coordinator for London at Students for Liberty UK and an intern at UK think tanks the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and the TaxPayers’ Alliance.

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 and hosts a YouTube show on politics/policy called Think Tanker. 

Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in macroeconomics, finance, and sports analytics. Jon has previously worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a Fixed Income Portfolio Construction and Risk Management Associate and as a Quantitative Investment Strategies Client Portfolio Management Senior Analyst, as a Dallas Cowboys Statistical Analyst and in various government/policy roles at the World Bank, the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is also currently a Visiting Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.

Jon graduated from University of Chicago with a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics with Honors and from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with an M.B.A. specializing in finance and business economics in addition to being an M.P.P. candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Jon has also been a regular economics contributor for Forbes and The Huffington Post and has had other writings appear in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today among many other outlets. Jon has also appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, Bloomberg, and NBC and was named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 Law & Policy list, the 2017 Wharton 40 Under 40 list and is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.

Julia Behan is an undergraduate student of Modern Languages and Cultures (Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan) at the University of Sheffield, having attended school in Spain. Previously, Julia worked as a research associate at the Adam Smith Institute and has written for websites including 1828 and CapX.

Kat Dwyer is the marketing and media manager for PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center, a conservation non-profit and the home of free-market environmentalism. She received her BA in economics from San Jose State University, and her writing has appeared in outlets such as The Hill and the OC Register. She is a co-host of the Whiskey Bench podcast.

Katherine Revello is a freelance writer and editor. She holds dual political science and journalism degrees from the University of Maine and specializes in political communication. Outside of politics, she also owns Input/Output Enterprises, an independent publishing company.

Kenneth Schrupp is an interdisciplinary communicator whose passions for persuasion and learning have led him to the intersection of business, politics, and media. For nearly a decade, he has used his talents for oratory, writing, and research to forge decisive, new coalitions for contemporary issues. In addition to his undergraduate studies in political science at UC San Diego, Kenneth applies his knowledge of policy and media to create and implement measurable, objective-driven client strategies for Chamberlayne PR, a strategic communications and public affairs firm. He also serves as editor in chief of The California Review, a classical liberal statewide journal. 

Kir Nuthi is the Public Affairs Associate at NetChoice, a trade organization that fights for free expression and free enterprise online. Kir came to NetChoice from Young Voices where she was their external relations manager, focusing on partnerships, coalitions, and fundraising. She has also worked as a fundraiser and social media manager for the American Legislative Exchange Council and got her start in Washington D.C. as an immigration policy intern at the Cato Institute. Kir holds an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London and a BA in Economics and Political Science, International Relations, from the University of California, San Diego.

Lindsay Poss is the Director of Communications at a small, technology policy-focused think tank in Washington D.C. She is a regular commentator on the Business of Esports, and a contributor to Young Voices. In her free time, Lindsay spends most of her time reading books but will take a break to watch her beloved NBA and argue basketball on Twitter.

Luke is a current graduate student of economics at George Mason University. His passion is making policy easy to understand for the common man by using data to shine a light on truth. He previously worked in New Delhi, India as a data analyst specializing in analyzing health data, and as a political data analyst with Americans for Prosperity in Arlington, VA. Luke writes on healthcare policy and its intersection with technology and innovation, with his work being featured in the Washington Times, the Foundation for Economic Education, and the Platte Institute blog.

Nate Hochman is a rising senior at Colorado College. He was an editorial intern at National Review for the summer of 2019 and an ISI Summer Fellow at The Dispatch for the summer of 2020. His writing has been published in National Review, City Journal, The Dispatch, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, Quillette, The American Conservative, Townhall, The Orange County Register, The Colorado Springs Gazette, Intercollegiate Review and various other outlets, including in the September 2020 print issue of the National Review magazine, and he has appeared on various television shows, podcasts and radio programs such as Fox 5 DC, the First Things podcast, Matt Lewis and the News, the Acton Line and numerous others. He’s also a graduate of AEI’s Summer Honors Academy, a Young Voices Associate Contributor and a Conservative Fellow at the Citizens’ Climate Lobby.

Nick is a Strategist at Beck & Stone, a brand consultancy that helps institutions and ambitious entrepreneurs build strong brands that connect with American culture. Before his current role, Nick was the National Policy Director at the American Conservation Coalition, a millennial-led free-market environmental organization, where he helped build the organization into a national force for change. Over the course of his college and professional career, Nick has been published at, and a guest on, many outlets including National Review, The Hill, TownHall, NPR’s Weekend Edition, and Fox News Radio.

Nickie Deahl is a recent graduate of George Mason University where she received a master’s degree in International Security and a bachelor’s degree in Government and International Politics. She’s a current intern at the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and previously interned at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Her work has been published at Responsible Statecraft and the Libertarian Institute.

Nico Zviovich currently works as the Membership and Communications Director for a Georgia-based civil justice organization. He holds a Bachelor’s in International Affairs from George Washington University. His research interests include immigration policy, US foreign policy in Latin America, and access to civil justice.

Noah Khogali is National Policy Director at the Conservative Friends of the Commonwealth. He is a Government and Politics student at Queen’s University Belfast in his final year. Noah is also a Conservative Party member, Deputy Foreign Affairs Editor for The New Briton, and Commonwealth Correspondent for YourCommonwealth.

Patrick Kennedy was born and raised on the South Shore of Massachusetts and attends Trinity College where he studies Political Science and American Law. He concentrates on political theory and is an avid writer inspired by the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, John Locke, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Hunter Thompson. In recent years he has worked on Beacon Hill in Boston as a legislative intern in the state senate, managed a successful mayoral campaign in his home city of Weymouth, MA, and worked at the American Consumer Institute in Washington DC.

Rachel Chiu is a Research Associate at a DC-based think tank, specializing in emerging technologies and civil liberties. She has researched and written about hiring, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property. In her spare time, Rachel volunteers as the Head of Policy at VentureMovingForward.org, where she evaluates and recommends anti-harassment policies for venture capitalist firms around the world.

Rachel graduated with honors from Cornell University.

Sarah Weaver is a graduate student at Hillsdale College and a freelance writer with a passion for preserving the timeless truths of the American founding for future generations. Through her writing, Sarah seeks to fight tyranny from wherever it arises and to preserve freedom. Sarah believes the conservative message of freedom and family values is for everyone and hopes that her writing can play a small part in getting that message to others. She has been published at The Federalist, The American Spectator, The Hillsdale Collegian, and The Detroit News.

Scott Zipperle is a government relations professional with a focus on economic policy at a Washington D.C. based think-tank. He graduated from The University of Alabama where he earned a bachelor’s degree in public relations. Scott writes on religion, philosophy, and civil society.

Sean-Michael is a senior at Yale University, majoring in both Political Science and History. He has worked on economic regulation and political data analysis in national and local politics. Sean-Michael has done extensive work as a research assistant documenting government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. He is happily married and currently lives in Texas.

Sebastian Thormann was born in Munich, Germany, and currently studies Information Systems at the University of Passau, Germany. He follows international and US politics closely and has written for a few German and American publications. Sebastian is also a columnist at the Lone Conservative (US), where he is part of the leadership team.

Seth Smitherman is a sixth-generation Texan and a law student at the University of Texas School of Law. Currently, he is the President of the UT Student Chapter of the Federalist Society and an Articles Editor for the Texas Review of Law & Politics. A Texas A&M Aggie living in Austin, Texas, Seth enjoys SEC football, rock climbing, deer hunting, and heated political debates over a few beers. After graduation, Seth will clerk on the Supreme Court of Texas and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Shaun Cammack is a graduate student at the University of Chicago and author of The Evergreen Affair masters thesis. He is the founder of The Narratives Project,  which charts the evolution of political narratives in media. His areas of interest include economic freedom and free expression. Shaun formerly worked in Alaska as a dog handler, and previously lived in Japan as an English teacher. His work have been published in Areo Magazine, the Merion West Journal, The Federalist, Chicago Tribune, Spiked! and The Daily Wire.

Steven Zhou is a Ph.D. student in industrial-organizational psychology at George Mason University. His research interests and expertise include leadership development, psychometrics, and higher education administration. As a writer, his primary goal is to bridge the gap between academia and the public, working towards accurate and widespread dissemination of research insights from organizational psychology to the general public.

Tahmineh Dehbozorgi is the Public Relations Associate for Young Voices. She graduated from UCLA with Honors majoring in Political Science, focusing on International Relations and American Politics. She began her political career as a California State Chair at Young Americans for Liberty. Her writings have been published in the Washington Examiner and Campus Reform. Her areas of expertise include foreign policy, national security, higher education, and elections. Tahmineh won the Young Americans for Liberty Activist of the Year award in 2018 and the UCLA Chancellor’s Service Award in 2020.

Tanner Aliff graduated from George Fox University in Spring 2019 with two degrees in Cognitive Neuroscience and Political Science. In his time being an undergraduate, Tanner was named the Most Aspiring Student by the George Fox Politics Department, served as the chairman for his university’s American Enterprise Institute Executive Council for three years, worked as a mental health evaluator at Providence Health, led a lecture on short-term memory interference at the Western Psychology Association Spring (WPA) Summit, and received the WPA International Undergrad Studies Award for his research on cognitive interference with Nepali nationals.

Upon graduating Tanner was accepted into the prestigious John Jay Institute Fellowship where he received a robust education in classical liberalism and an understanding of the philosophical underpinnings that motivate current political movements. Tanner has recently finished interning as a health and welfare policy research intern at both the Heritage Foundation and Charles Koch Institute. Currently, Tanner is working as a research fellow observing and aggregating Coronavirus response data

Travis Nix is a current JD Candidate at Georgetown Law with a concentration in tax law. Travis’ tax and budget commentary has been featured in a wide variety of publications including Fox News, The Federalist, National Review, the Washington Examiner, and the Chicago Tribune. As a graduate of Villanova University with degrees in Political Science and Spanish, he loves cheering on his beloved Villanova Wildcats and hometown Chicago Cubs in his free time.

Nolan Gray is an advisor for The Center for Market Urbanism and policy fellow at Mercatus in Washinton, D.C. He holds a Master’s 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, Cheddar, Reason and The Guardian. In 2018, he won the Young Voices Award, presented by Reason, for impactful scholarship by writers under 30.

Satya is a policy analyst at the Reason Foundation and former Director of Policy at the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance. He has contributed regularly to The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun and Spectator in Australia and has been published internationally in The Hill, and The Verdict.

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, technology, foreign relations, public health and civil liberties. He has also appeared regularly before state and federal parliamentary and senate inquiries to provide evidence on policies impacting Australia’s economic prosperity and social freedoms.

Molly is a policy analyst at the Libertas Institute in Utah. She writes about criminal justice reform, policing and individual privacy rights. Her work has been published in The Hill, Wired Magazine, Washington Examiner, The Federalist, Salt Lake Tribune, and more.

Molly is a magna cum laude graduate from Rocky Mountain College in Montana where she served as president of her college’s Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Young Americans for Liberty chapters. During her college years she worked as a student coordinator for Students for Liberty and completed a policy internship at Reason Foundation in Washington, DC.

Matthew Larosiere is the policy director for the Firearms Policy Coalition. 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.

Alex Muresianu is a Boston-based writer, who primarily writes on topics such as taxes, healthcare, and occupational licensing. Previously, he interned at the Tax Foundation on the federal policy team, worked as an Akin Fellow of Digital Media at the Pioneer Institute, and was a journalism intern at Reason.

His work has been published in numerous outlets, including National Review Online, The Orange County Register, The Kansas City Star, The Detroit News, The American Conservative, The Federalist, RealClear Policy, the Washington Examiner, and The Springfield Republican.

Christian Barnard is an education policy analyst with the Reason Foundation and writer for Young Voices. His work has been featured in multiple publications such as the OC Register, The Hill, Orlando Sentinel, Washington Examiner and on SiriusXM, WJLA DC and FOX 5 DC.