Edwin Hagenstein
Edwin C. Hagenstein is a writer and editor with long experience in publishing. He was the lead editor of American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land (Yale University Press, 2011), and author of The Language of Liberty: A Citizen’s Vocabulary (Rootstock Publishing, 2020), winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (gold medal). He has also published essays, generally on government, in online publications such as RealClear Public Affairs, The Front Porch Republic, and Minding the Campus. With an interest in woodworking, Hagenstein also wrote Craft in Common: 30 Years at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (Crow Hill Press, 2023). He lives in northern New Mexico with the artist Helen Byers.
John Ullyot
John Ullyot is a US Marine Corps veteran who served as chief spokesman for the National Security Council, and as a Deputy Assistant to President Trump at the White House. He was also a senior advisor on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
A former Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, he served for seven years as a senior staff member in the US Senate as Communications Director and spokesman for the Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committees. As a Marine intelligence officer and scout-sniper platoon commander, he served on the US-Mexico border, supporting the US Border Patrol with Joint Task Force-6, and in jungle warfare training with the French Foreign Legion in South America.
He is a regular commentator on political and national security issues with national media outlets, including Fox News, Newsmax, and NewsNation. Additionally, he is a columnist at Townhall and has published opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, National Review, and Federalist, among others.
Gerrick D. Wilkins
Gerrick Wilkins chose to run for the U.S. Congress in direct opposition to the all-too-common malady of career politicians. After witnessing the pitfalls of prolonged political tenures and government intrusion, Wilkins is committed to a three-term limit and is on a mission to rekindle the founders’ vision of citizen legislators.
Driven by President Reagan’s ethos of “everyone can help someone,” Wilkins is a stalwart advocate for America and actively involved in mission work, both locally and globally. His unwavering Christian faith, combined with the support of his family, has been his bedrock in the service of others, and a congressional run is an extension of that clarity of purpose.
An accomplished entrepreneur with over two decades in the automotive industry, Wilkins’ leadership has afforded him keen insights into the challenges and rewards of achieving the American dream. His extensive business acumen, coupled with a deep-seated belief in limited government, puts him squarely in position to articulate the urgency of moving away from career politicians.
Wilkins graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Liberty University and an MBA from Samford University, including concentrations in entrepreneurship and innovation. The Wilkins family, which includes Carol, Gerrick’s wife of twenty-four years, and their daughter, Hanna, has made Alabama their home since 2006.
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J.T. Young
J.T. Young has worked for over three decades in and around DC politics, immersed in economic advising and policy legislation from Capitol Hill. Alongside degrees from the University of Chicago (B.A.) and Cornell University (M.A., Ph.D.), Young’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal,
Washington Times, Washington Examiner, The Hill, American Spectator, The Federalist, Washington Post, New York Post, Barron’s, Forbes, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and elsewhere.
With a fondness for motorcycles and scuba diving in his youth, he now considers himself a responsible adult with a wife and family. His adventures today consist of attending baseball games, visiting national parks, and photography.
C. Owen Paepke
C. Owen Paepke is the author of The Evolution of Progress (named best nonfiction book of 1993 by NPR’s Talk of the Nation) and the three-volume series The Seinfeld Election, which was praised by reviewers as “a provocative investigation into the American political divide.”
He has written and spoken widely on technology and science policy, including a keynote address on the future of science to the fiftieth-anniversary meeting of the Federation of American Scientists and a speech on the prospects for technological and economic progress at the Smithsonian Institution.
He lives in Arizona, where he practiced for many years as an attorney specializing in antitrust and intellectual property, and is a graduate of Stanford and the University of Chicago.
Stephen B. Young
Stephen B. Young is the global executive director of the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism and the author of Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good, The Tradition of Human Rights in China and Vietnam, and The Theory and Practice of Associative Power: CORDS in the Villages of Vietnam 1967–1972.
He and his wife, Pham Thi Hoa, translated from Vietnamese the novel about Ho Chi Minh published as The Zenith. His 1968–1971 service in Vietnam for the US Agency for International Development in village development and counterinsurgency was highly praised by President Richard Nixon, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Colby, and ambassador to Saigon Ellsworth Bunker.
In 1975 and again in 1978, Young took a lead in successful efforts to resettle refugees from South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in the United States. For many years Young was a confidant of Nguyen Ngoc Huy, the founder of the Tan Dai Viet Nationalist political party in South Vietnam.
Young also served as an assistant dean at the Harvard Law School and dean and professor of law at the Hamline University School of Law. He graduated from the International School in Bangkok, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School.
In 1966, Young discovered the Bronze Age culture of the village of Ban Chiang in Northeast Thailand, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. In 1989, he proposed the formation of a United Nations interim administration for Cambodia to finally put an end to the Killing Fields in that country.
Daryl Weber
Daryl Weber, Ken’s son, is a brand strategist who has worked for some of the biggest brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Nike, Johnnie Walker, Google, and many others. He was previously global director of creative strategy at The Coca-Cola Company and a strategy director at the brand consultancy Redscout. Daryl’s book, Brand Seduction: How Neuroscience Can Help Marketers Build Memorable Brands, has been translated into several languages and has received rave industry reviews.
Ken Weber
Ken Weber is president of Weber Asset Management, a registered investment advisor firm based in New York. He started the business with no formal training in the financial industry’s sales techniques, but within a few years it grew—thanks to branding and marketing—to be among the top ten percent of the industry, based on assets under management. For ten years, Ken Weber wrote a political blog, Sanity-First.com, and he is the author of the book Dear Investor, What the HELL are You Doing?.
Diane Hessan
Diane Hessan is an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator in the market research field, and a nationally recognized expert on the American voter. Since 2016, she has been engaged in an in-depth, longitudinal study of the electorate, looking for trends, shifts, and common ground. She has written more than 50 columns about her findings for the Boston Globe, and her work has also been featured on CNN and NPR and in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and many other outlets.
She is the founder and Chairman of C Space, formerly called Communispace, which was the first company to leverage social media to help companies get insight and inspiration from their consumers. Diane was CEO of the company during 14 years of exponential growth, as C Space worked with hundreds of global brands across twelve countries. She has been honored as a disruptor in the market research industry because of her work in conducting breakthrough research via the internet. Diane recently consolidated all of her investment and advisory work into a new company called Salient Ventures, which helps accelerate the next generation of startup companies in tech. She serves on the boards of Panera, Eastern Bank, Brightcove, Schlesinger Group, Mass Challenge, Tufts University, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 2017, the Boston Globe appointed her to its editorial board. Diane has received many honors, including the Pinnacle Award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Most Admired CEO award and Boston Power 50 awards from the Boston Business Journal, Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, the Northstar Award from Springboard, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year. She has been inducted into the Babson College Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs, and she received the Asper Award for Global Entrepreneurship from Brandeis University. Diane previously co-authored the book Customer-Centered Growth: Five Strategies for Building Competitive Advantage, a Business Week best seller that was published in eleven languages. She received a BA in economics and English from Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.620 Herndon Parkway, Suite 220|
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