America's Future Foundation

You may be surprised how someone can express a career of several diverse jobs in one inspiring sentence. However, Roger Ream, the president of The Fund for American Studies, is able to articulate his experience in the public and non-profit sector succinctly. Ream’s success, he claims, is a result of his “passion for economic education [...]

There probably isn’t a lot of crossover between a leading non-profit liberty organization like the Charles Koch Foundation and a Fortune 500 powerhouse like Deloitte, but Cara Burgess says that having her feet in both worlds has helped her stand out among her peers in both settings. After graduating from Mercer University in Macon, GA, [...]

Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment, a columnist on Fox News Opinion, and chairman of the Internet Freedom Coalition. Prior to joining American Commitment, he served as vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity. Phil has also previously worked as an analyst and researcher for the Free Enterprise Fund, the Club for Growth, [...]

On Twitter, Nansen Malin is the most followed non-celebrity in the world – her following @nansen is just over 440 thousand people. Which probably makes her a celebrity in her own right. Living on a beach on the Pacific coast of Washington state, she says, My social media following has given me involvement at a [...]

Attorney and labor expert, F. Vincent “Vinnie” Vernuccio is currently heading up the labor policy team at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). He is the creator and editor of CEI’s labor news website WorkplaceChoice.org, home of the acclaimed Big Labor vs. Taxpayer Index which, “comprehensively ranks each state on 23 individual aspects to determine the [...]

Kerry Picket is the editor of The Water Cooler blog at the Washington Times. As someone who did not go to journalism school, and had “no plans of going into journalism,” her success is a testament to new rules of political reporting. “Just take in as much experience as possible,” she advises young people, “just [...]

In college, most students are limited in their understanding of the jobs that are available to them when they enter the workforce. Doctor, teacher, banker and the like are the categories of options most people grasp. Even students with interests in the area of political science, economics, and government who have looked into careers are [...]

Katherine Mangu-Ward is managing editor of Reason Magazine and Reason.com. After brushes with old-style journalism and a behemoth paper of record, Katherine says that the journalism industry is changing. Katherine’s “one and only brush with local journalism” was at The Alexandria Gazette the summer between high school and college. “They had this amazing old style [...]

Heading the investigative journalism team at the Heritage Foundation, Robert Bluey is on the leading-edge of the growth of research organizations into news-making. “There are things we bring to the table in conjunction with policy analysts that makes a really effective team,” he says, “They are…coming up with new and creative ideas, and we are [...]

Jimmy LaSalvia enjoys being one of the most successful provocateurs of the greater Tea Party movement. He is the executive director and co-founder of GOProud, a grassroots organization that represents gay conservatives. After the 2008 presidential election, LaSalvia and GOProud co-founder Chris Barron, observed that only 28 percent of gay voters voted for John McCain [...]