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.

Anjali Nadaradjane was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. She currently studies a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts (International Relations) double degree at Macquarie University. She has been published in a variety of national Australian publications such as The Sun Herald, Australian Spectator and Daily Telegraph on a range of public policy and topical issues. She is a research associate at the Australian Taxpayers Alliance, a grassroots advocacy organization which opposes high taxes, wasteful spending, and crippling red tape. She has also worked in Indonesia for Resilience Development Initiative, a policy-research think tank and Norton Rose Fulbright, a global commercial law firm.

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.

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 a student 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. His work has been featured in USA Today, Spiked!, Washington Examiner, TownHall and more. 

Connor O’Brien is a graduate student in public policy at the University of Chicago. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from Rutgers University. He has a wide range of policy interests but specializes in economic development, taxation, and urban policy issues. Connor has interned at the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Niskanen Center working on economic policy.

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

Dan writes extensively on issues of surveillance, privacy, civil liberties and criminal justice reform. He’s been published in The American Conservative, National Review, 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

Dimitri Simes Jr. is a journalist covering international affairs, defense policy, and Capitol Hill. He has reported from both Washington, D.C. and Moscow, Russia. Dimitri graduated from Johns Hopkins University in May 2019, where he served as the President of the campus John Quincy Adams Society Chapter and Chief Editor of Realist Review.

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.

Ethan Lamb will be entering his first year of law school at Georgetown University in the fall. He recently graduated New York University with a B.A. in economics and served as a writer for the NYU Economics Review. He has worked as an intern for both the National Taxpayers Union and the Cato Institute.

Fiona Harrigan is a sophomore pursuing a B.S. in Natural Resources at the University of Arizona. At UA, she is a member of the Honors College. Fiona has worked for think-tanks such as Strata Policy and the Foundation for Economic Education. She is an alumna of the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange and currently works as a photographer for the Foundation for Economic Education.

Haley Victory Smith is an editorial fellow with the opinion section at USA TODAY. She is an alum of the National Journalism Center and a nationally ranked collegiate speech competitor. A recent graduate of Concordia University Irvine, Haley has earned a Bachelor’s degree in History and Political Thought and has also spent time studying Russian politics at the University of Oxford.

Jacob Bruggeman is an Ohio-born graduate student in economic and social history at the University of Cambridge who writes about American arts & culture, cities, higher education, and policy issues in the Midwest. His work has been published in USA Today, the Des Moines Register, Washington Examiner, Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Daily Advertiser, Florida Today, RealClearPolicy, The American Conservative, among other outlets.

Additionally, he’s the History Editor of the Cleveland Review of Books and books editor of The Metropole. Previously, he was a Writing Fellow with America’s Future Foundation and a Collegiate Network intern at USA Today.

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 The Independent UK, Defense One, 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. He now serves as a Fellow for Defense Priorities. 

Kristiana Bolzman is an Oregon-based policy writer focused on K-12 and higher education. Her work has been published in The Detroit News, Orange County Register, Townhall, and Orlando Sentinel, among other outlets.

Previously, Kristiana spent time at Fox News and on Capitol Hill, as a Generation Liberty Fellow at the State Policy Network, and as a member of The Heritage Foundation’s Young Leader program. Now, she is a Catalyst Policy Fellow with the Independent Institute.

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.

Robert is Director of Communications at NetChoice, a trade association fighting for free speech and free enterprise online. Before working in tech policy, he worked in digital and social media marketing for political organizations. Robert immigrated to the U.S. almost 5 years ago after graduating in International Politics at King’s College London.

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.

Shaun Cammack is a graduate student at the University of Chicago. His areas of interest includes economic freedom and free expression. Shaun formerly worked in Alaska as a dog handler, and previously lived in Japan as an English teacher. His essays have been published in Areo Magazine and the Merion West Journal.

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.

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.

Molly is a policy analyst at Libertas Institute, a free-market think tank in Utah. She writes about criminal justice reform, consumer freedom, 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.

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 is a specialist in immigration policy and a 2019 Young Voices tech policy fellow. His research and writing have been used in white papers for Hill staffers and his commentary has been featured in numerous national and regional publications including USA Today, Reason, the Kansas City Star, and the Orange County Register.

Sam previously worked as an academic coordinator for the Institute for Humane Studies and as an intern for the Niskanen Center and the Cato Institute. Before that, he worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant and home healthcare worker in Kansas City. He is an alumnus of Park University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.

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.

John Dale Grover is the Assistant Managing Editor at The National Interest and a Korean Studies Fellow at the Center for the National Interest. He writes for Young Voices as a Senior Contributor and is a Fellow with Defense Priorities. 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 an M.S. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.

His work on foreign affairs can be found on Defense One, The Hill, Forbes, RealClearWorld, RealClearDefense, The American Conservative, Fox News and in a variety of national security outlets. John has been seen on C-SPAN, Fox Business, i24 News, Fox and Friends First, FOX 5 and WUSA 9. His whole portfolio can be found here & follow him on Twitter @JohnDaleGrover.