Staff and Board

America's Future recruits and cultivates young professionals to become effective, lifelong advocates who will inspire their peers to embrace freedom

Staff

Sam Adofo

Northeast Hub Coordinator (PT)

Samuel Adofo is currently a Data and Artificial Intelligence consultant for a Global 500 company. He received his B.S. in Applied and Computational Math and Stats from the University of Notre Dame in 2020. While in school he developed a...more

Chloe Anagnos

Director of Marketing

Chloe Anagnos is the Director of Marketing and Communications for America's Future. She's spent her career developing marketing strategies for small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, think tanks, and presidential campaigns. Her work has been the subject of articles on the...more

Phillip Bader

Digital Manager

Phillip Bader is the Communications & Social Media Manager at America’s Future, where he works to highlight the AF brand while educating, entertaining, and expanding AF’s audience and online presence. Previously he has interned and worked in communications for organizations...more

Cindy Cerquitella

Executive Director

Cindy Cerquitella is executive director at America’s Future. Cindy has spent her career empowering champions of freedom across the globe by giving them the skills, support, guidance, and community they need to take the ideas of liberty and spread them...more

Kacey Crane

Director of Leadership Development Programs

Kacey Crane is the Leadership Development Director for America's Future, where she oversees the Membership Program and Fellowships. Kacey started her career in grassroots politics. She transitioned into policy and programming, working for Faegre Drinker, Butler University, the Indiana Department...more

Kaleigh Cunningham

Hub & Chapter Manager (PT)

Kaleigh Cunningham graduated from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2017 with degrees in Political Science and Environmental Geography. While in school, Kaleigh became a leader on her campus by founding a Young Americans for Liberty chapter. Throughout college and in...more

Natalie Dowzicky

Editor (PT)

Natalie Dowzicky is the part-time Editor for America's Future. In her full-time capacity, she is a Deputy Managing Editor at Reason Magazine. Formerly she was a contributor for Young Voices where her work appeared in The Washington Times, the National...more

Emma Erfourth

Office & Development Manager

Emma Erfourth is the Office & Development Manager for America's Future at the headquarters in Washington, DC, where she handles office operations and development processes. She received her B.S. in Political Science with a psychology minor from Florida State University....more

Larry Gillheeney

Northeast Hub Director (PT)

Larry works for the Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity. He holds an advanced degree in International Relations from Salve Regina University, where he focused extensively on economic development and individual rights. Larry is the editor of the Ocean...more

Hannah Henriksen

California Hub Coordinator (PT)

Hannah Henriksen joined the liberty world in late 2020 and has since become a wearer of many hats. From the beginning, she knew liberty, in this new light, was something she was passionate about. Hannah is primarily the Social Media...more

Austin Jack

Outreach Fellow & Podcast Host: Brewing Business (PT)

Serving as the Chief Development Officer to one of the nation’s leading public policy and litigation centers for the last five years, the Goldwater Institute, while simultaneously serving as the Southwest Regional Hub Director for America's Future, Austin Jack comes...more

Pagona Manologlou

California Hub Director (PT)

Pagona Manologlou is the founder and Principal at Elefthero, a consulting firm which seeks to highlight and advance the people and possibilities of California and beyond by working with organizations and individuals who are committed to creating and sustaining projects,...more

Addison Patrick

Community Assistant & Acting DC Hub Director

Addison is the Acting DC Hub Director for America’s Future. She originally connected with AF in 2019, while serving on the AF-Jacksonville Board and later as Chapter Leader. Addison relocated to the DMV in 2021 and soon re-connected with AF...more

Matt Purple

Writing Fellows Manager (PT)

Matt Purple is the Online Editor of The Spectator's World edition. His writing has appeared in National Review, The American Spectator, Reason, The National Interest, and elsewhere. A graduate of The Catholic University of America, he lives in Alexandria.

Katherine Revello

Email Marketing Coordinator (PT)

Katherine Revello is a writer and communications specialist. She has degrees in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Maine and her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Reason, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Examiner. Katherine's work...more

Charles Roelofs

Director of Development

Charles is the Director of Development for America’s Future working with our partners every day to ensure we have the resources needed to accomplish our mission. He joined the team in February of 2022. For the past 14 years, he...more

Rhachel Toombs

Director of Community

Rhachel is the Director of Community at America's Future. She has years of experience in clergy and advocacy, with a focus on community organizing. As a trainer, Rhachel has educated hundreds on important issues and activism. She received her bachelor's...more

Nico Zviovich

Southeast Hub Director (PT)

Nico Zviovich is an Atlanta-based interdisciplinary communicator whose passions for persuasion and advocacy have led him to work at Iron Light, an agency empowering organizations that will change the world. He has worked with clients throughout the United States, Latin...more

Board of Directors

Jeff Berkowitz

Recognized by Politico as “an opposition research and policy ace,” Jeff Berkowitz is Founder and CEO of Delve, a competitive intelligence firm. He's served as Research Director at the Republican National Committee to help shape public opinion on issues including:...more

Romina Boccia

Secretary

Romina Boccia is director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, where she specializes in federal spending, budget process, economic implications of rising debt, and Social Security and Medicare reform. Boccia was previously director of the Grover M....more

Christine Czernejewski

Christine Czernejewski is the Director of Communications and Outreach at the Bradley Foundation, a philanthropic pillar in Milwaukee that grants funds to public charities across the nation that strengthen civil society and uphold our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and...more

Beverly Hallberg

Treasurer

Beverly is the founder and president of District Media Group. An expert media coach, lecturer, and public speaker with 20 years of experience, she trains Members of Congress, CEOs, policy wonks, reporters, non-profit and movement leaders, and politicos. Beverly is...more

Peter Lipsett

Vice Chair

Peter Lipsett is Vice President of DonorsTrust, the community foundation of the liberty movement. Previously, Peter spent nearly a decade within the Koch organizations as part of the team building a unique donor network. Originally from Marietta, Georgia, Peter moved...more

Richard Lorenc

Chairman

Richard Lorenc is Chief Growth Officer of Iron Light Labs, an award-winning strategic marketing firm specializing in helping purpose-driven brands change the world. Lorenc leads business development, business development team and process building, and participates in product and services development....more

Matt Warner

Matt Warner is president of Atlas Network, a nonprofit grantmaking organization committed to supporting local NGOs in more than 90 countries. Matt is co-author of "Development with Dignity: Self-determination, Localization, and an End to Poverty" (Routledge, 2022), the editor of...more

Eric Kohn

Eric Kohn is Director of Marketing and Communications at the Acton Institute. In that role, he works to bring Acton's vision of a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles to a wider audience....more

Advisory Board

Chris Siddall, AF Founder

Mary Riner, AF Founder

Adam Kaufman, AF Founder

Bob Caldwell, AF Founder

Lisa Caldwell, AF Founder

Samuel Casey Carter, AF Founder

Suzanne Kirby, AF Founder

Scott Lansell, AF Founder