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Navigation Scholarships Fellowships Press Releases Trustees Make a Tax-Deductible Donation	Overview of The Robert Novak Journalism Fellows since inception of the program Years listed: 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 2010 Scott Thomas Anderson Part-time Fellowship-2010 Project: “Shadow People: How Meth-Driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America.” Scott works as a news reporter at the Amador Ledger Dispatch in Jackson, Calif., and as a contributing reporter at the Calaveras Enterprise. He served as a contributing reporter at the Sacramento News & Review. He received a B.A. in English studies from the University of California at Davis. Amy Bushatz Part-time Fellowship-2010 Project: “Deployed: The Silent Sacrifice for Freedom and the Destruction of the Military Family.” Amy is a freelance reporter in Lakewood, Wash. Previously, she worked at Army Times Publishing Company, Federal Times, The Politico, and The Washington Times. She earned a B.A. in communications at Thomas Edison State College. Jessica Corry Part-time Fellowship-2010 Project: “Victim Nation: How We Can Rescue Our Children from America’s Oppression-Inventing, Self-Hating, Overspending, Multi-Billion Dollar Diversity Industry.” Jessica serves as a columnist at the Colorado Springs Gazette where she focuses on issues surrounding religious liberty in America. She also works as a freelance columnist and an attorney. She received a J.D. from the University of Denver, an M.A. in government from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Colorado. Elise Jordan Part-time Fellowship-2010 Project: “Muslim Girls and Women as Equal Americans: Crimes against Women under the Guise of Political Islam and Tribal Custom are a Human Rights Tragedy Abhorrent to American Values and Law.” Elise is a freelance writer and the director of strategic initiatives at The AHA Foundation in New York. She served as director of communications, Afghanistan, at the National Security Council and as a speechwriter for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and for the White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting. She earned a B.A. in history at Yale University. Aleksandra Kulczuga Full-time Fellowship-2010 Project: “Our Allies and Our Exit Strategy: Poland’s Contribution to the War on Terror.” Aleksandra works as a reporter at Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller. Her work has appeared in Forbes, the Washington Examiner, the Alexandria Gazette, and numerous other publications. Previously, she worked on Wall Street at Salomon Smith Barney and also worked as a Business Development professional in Chicago. She earned a Master of Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago and a B.A. in computer science and economics at New York University. William McMorris Part-time Fellowship-2010 Project: “Fraud by Any Other Name: Public Pension Neglect and the Coming Panic.” Bill is a staff writer at the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity in Chicago where he broke the story about $6.4 billion in economic stimulus funds going to phantom Congressional districts. Previously, he worked as a reporter at the Santa Barbara News-Press. He graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in government and history. 2009 Sheryl Blunt Full-Time Fellowship-2009 Project: “The Assault on School Choice: How Teachers Unions’ Opposition to Vouchers is Impacting America’s Most Vulnerable School Children.” Sheryl serves as a reporter and senior writer at Christianity Today. She worked as a reporter and researcher at Congressional Quarterly and as a freelance reporter at the Journal Newspapers in the D.C. area. She received an M.A. in journalism and public affairs from The American University and a B.A. in political science from Wheaton College. Reilly Capps Part-Time Fellowship-2009 Project: "The Continental Divide: How the West's Geography Carves the Political and Cultural Future of America; or How the Nanny State Took over the Wild West." After five years at a newspaper in Colorado, Reilly is now a freelance writer. He interned at the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. He graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in humanities. Michael Dougherty Full-Time Fellowship-2009 Project: “Blowup: The Contradictions of the Economic Crisis.” Michael will investigate the people and policies that caused the meltdown and study the consequences of the Obama recovery plan. He was associate editor at The American Conservative. He worked as a monthly columnist at Brainwash (now Doublethink) and as a contributing editor at All American Colleges, a college guide published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He earned a B.A. in history at Fordham University. Gary Emerling Full-Time Fellowship-2009 Project: "Police State or Probable Cause? The Employment, Effectiveness and Legal Validity of Law Enforcement Checkpoints in the United States." Gary is a former D.C. and Virginia reporter on the Metro Desk of The Washington Times where he covered the administration of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Gov. Tim Kaine, and played a key role in the paper's coverage of the 2008 Republication National Convention. He received a B.A. in journalism from Biola University where he was editor in chief of the weekly student newspaper. James Kirchick Part-Time Fellowship-2009 Project: Transnational Progressivism and the Threat to America. Jamie Kirchick is a reporter, foreign correspondent, essayist and columnist. He is writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty based in Prague and Washington. A contributing editor to The New Republic and contributing writer to The Advocate, he writes frequently for newspapers including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Ha'aretz and the Jerusalem Post, as well as magazines including the Columbia Journalism Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, OUT, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Weekly Standard and Commentary. He has worked as a reporter for The New York Sun, the New York Daily News and The Hill and has been a columnist for the New York Daily News and the Washington Examiner. He is a regular book critic and reviews frequently for Azure, Commentary the Claremont Review of Books, Policy Review and World Affairs among others. Christian Lowe Part-Time Fellowship-2009 Project: "Answering the Call: Why Some Millenials Abandon a Life of Comfort and Prosperity to Risk Everything and Fight America Wars." Christian serves as managing editor at Military.com. He worked as a senior writer at Army Times and as a reporter at Defense Week. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in government and international relations. Stephen Robert Morse Part-Time Fellowship-2009 Project: "My Two Census," will examine why the 2010 census could become the most controversial data-gathering process in history. Stephen Robert Morse is the Founder and Executive Editor of MyTwoCensus.com, the non-partisan watchdog of the 2010 US Census. In addition to his Phillips Foundation fellowship that funds the site, he is an Erasmus Mundus scholar sponsored by the European Union, studying Journalism and Media within Globalization with a focus on financial journalism. He earned an M.A. in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in England and a B.A. in English and history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently working on new entrepreneurial ventures in digital media and publishing. Katherine Truesdell Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-2009 Project: Caught in the Web: An Exploration of the Left Power Online and What It Means for the Right. Katie is the Manager of External Relations at the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago. She was previously a writer and editor at Sam Adams Alliance, a writer at Americans for Limited Government and a contributing reporter at The Kalamazoo Gazette. She earned a B.A. in American Studies at Hillsdale College where she worked on The Hillsdale Collegian. Robert VerBruggen Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-2009 Project: Race and the American Academy. Robert examined how American universities study racism, and discrimination and what their results mean for public policy. Robert is an associate editor at National Review. He freelances for a number of publications. He worked as assistant book editor at The Washington Times and apprentice editor at The National Interest. He received a B.S. in journalism and political science from Northwestern University where he was editor in chief of the Northwestern Chronicle. 2008 Cheryl K. Chumley Part-Time Fellowship-2008 Project: "National Heritage Areas: A Blot against Property Rights or a Boon for the Nation?” Cheryl is a staff writer at the News & Messenger. Her year-long research into NHAs was published at The Heartland Institute and in Townhall Magazine. She is also a freelancer with works published in The Washington Examiner, AOL News, Tech Central Station, The Heritage Foundation and Capital Research Center. She is an active army veteran, has worked as a staff writer and reporter at publications in Virginia, Maryland and Georgia, and as a radio news host in Indiana. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, four children and Golden Retriever. Matthew Continetti Part-Time Fellowship-2008 Project: “The Single Society: The Social Transformation Changing American Business, Politics, and Culture.” Matthew works as an associate editor at The Weekly Standard. He has published more than 200 articles in the print and online editions of the Standard since 2003. His work also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Financial Times. He authored The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine, published by Doubleday in 2006, and The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star, published by Sentinel in 2009. He earned a B.A. in history from Columbia University. David Donadio Full-Time Fellowship-2008 Project: “The Free Press in the Free Market: A Study of How the Internet is Transforming the Newspaper Business.” David serves as editorial services manager at the Carnegie Endowment and has worked as deputy managing editor of The American Interest, and Washington Reporter for The New York Sun. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Politics podcast, the South China Morning Post, Caijing,and many other publications. He graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A. in political science. Travis Kavulla Full-Time Fellowship-2008 Project: “Africa’s New Christianity and the Future of American Influence.” Travis is a writer who recently returned to his home state, Montana, where he lives on a ranch with his black lab Elise. He worked as associate editor for National Review in 2007 and still writes for the magazine and website. He earned a bachelor's in History at Harvard, where he was editor of the conservative Harvard Salient and an executive editor and longtime columnist of The Crimson. In 2008 he was a Gates Scholar at Cambridge, where he received an M. Phil. Emily Krone Full-Time Fellowship-2008 Project: “Unchartered Territory: Can Entrepreneurial Charter Schools Achieve the Scale and Sustain the Quality to Transform the American Public School System?” Emily works as senior manager for outreach and publications at the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. Prior to starting her full-time fellowhsip, Emily worked as senior education and immigration reporter at the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights, Ill. Prior to that she was Washington correspondent for the Durham Herald-Sun. She interned for Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Pam Zekman at the CBS 2 Chicago Investigative News Team. She received a Master’s in journalism from Northwestern University and an A.B. in history from Princeton University. Jonathan V. Last Part-Time Fellowship-2008 Project: “The Fertility Rate and America’s Future.” Jonathan is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. His writing has appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Post, TV Guide, and Slate. He graduated with a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University. Lygia Navarro Full-Time Fellowship-2008 Project: “Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America.” Lygia is a freelance journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has written for the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Christian Science Monitor, the Associated Press, Frontline/World, Weekend America, Marketplace, and Latino USA. She earned a Master’s in journalism and a B.A. in American studies from the University of California at Berkeley. 2007 Ryan T. Anderson Part-Time Fellowship-2007 Project: “Reason and Religion in the Public Square,” explores the alleged chasm between faith and reason. Ryan is currently the editor of Public Discourse: Ethics, Law, and the Common Good. Prior to that he was assistant editor at First Things and the assistant director of the Program on Bioethics and Human Dignity at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ. He is currently working on a PhD in political philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Princeton University in 2004. Sonny Bunch Part-Time Fellowship-2007 Project: “The Biggest Lie: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and the Consequences of Bad Ideas.” Sonny is a senior communications associate at Berman and Company. Previously, he was an arts writer and film critic for The Washington Times, as well as the assistant editor for books and arts at The Weekly Standard where he wrote a weekly column on film for the Standard's website. He got his start in Washington as an editorial assistant at Roll Call. He earned B.A. degrees in Politics and History at the University of Virginia where he served as editor-in-chief of the Virginia Advocate. Michael Goldfarb Part-Time Fellowship-2007 Project: “The Upside of Global Warming.” Michael is senior vice president at Orion Strategies where he does communications and media relations on behalf of political candidates and foreign governments. Before that he was online editor at The Weekly Standard. In 2008 Michael served as deputy director of communications for the McCain-Palin campaign. He received a B.A. in History from Princeton University with a concentration in war, revolution and the state. Alexander Halperin Full-Time Fellowship-2007 Project: “Business Off the Grid: Free Enterprise and the Brighter African Future.” Before his fellowship Alex was a reporter at BusinessWeek.com in New York and a reporting assistant at Dow Jones Newsletters. His work has appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Slate and The Cambodia Daily. Now a freelance writer based in New York City, he received an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in English Literature at McGill University. Jacob Laksin Full-Time Fellowship-2007 Project: “Killing with Kindness: How Extreme Multiculturalism Impacts the War on Terror.” Jacob is a managing editor for FrontPageMag.com. He served as a reporter, editor and editorial writer at Aufbau in New York and Berlin. Jacob is co-author, with David Horowitz, of One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy (2009). He earned a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University. Cheryl Miller Full-Time Fellowship-2007 Project: “Modern Parenthood: How Biotechnology is Changing the American Family.” Cheryl Miller is program manager of the Project on American Citizenship at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, she worked as head news clerk and editorial researcher at The New York Times and as deputy director of research in the Office of Presidential Speechwriting. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, and the Claremont Review of Books,. She graduated from the University of Dallas with a B.A. in English and Politics, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude. Kathleen Monaghan Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-2007 Project: A magazine length article on “Political Celebrities: Celebrating Mediocrity in America.” Kathleen is currently Communications Director for the Graves for Congress Campaign and Senior Writer at H.E.R.O. (Human-rights Education and Relief Organization.) Previously, she was a writer for national radio network, director of the English version of The Daily Gospel, a journalist at Cybercast News Service, and an Honors Fellow at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. She graduated from Thomas More College of Liberal Arts with a B.A. in Philosophy. 2006 Paulette Chu Miniter Full-Time Fellowship-2006 Project: "Home of the Brave-How the World's Refugees Become American Patriots." Paulette is a freelance writer in New York. Her work has appeared in publications including The Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Far Eastern Economic Review. She has held reporting positions at Dow Jones & Co., The Associated Press in New York and at The Seattle Times. She holds a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently a master's candidate studying American literary history at Skidmore College. Brendan Conway Part-Time Fellowship-2006 Project: "Running from Iraq-The Use and Abuse of War Veterans in the Coming Election and Beyond." Brendan is a reporter at Dow Jones Newswires covering Wall Street stock Research. He also helps cover the options market. Recently a contributor to the Christian Science Monitor, Brendan has served on the editorial board of The Washington Times as well as the editorial staffs of The Public Interest and The National Interest. His reporting, reviews and commentary have appeared in the Boston Globe, CNN Money.com, Wall Street Journal, American Interest, National Interest, Weekly Standard and elsewhere. He holds an A.B. in government magna cum laude from Harvard University. Duncan Currie Part-Time Fellowship-2006 Project: "Seizure Salad: The Revolution; and Counterrevolution in Eminent Domain Law." Duncan is currently a writer for National Review He previously worked as managing editor of The American magazine at AEI and as a writer for The Weekly Standard. His 2006-2007 Phillips Foundation project examined the nationwide movement to reform eminent domain laws in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's 2005 Kelo ruling. Duncan has also been a "Publius" fellow at the Claremont Institute. His articles and essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Claremont Review of Books. He graduated from Harvard in 2004. Meghan Keane Full-Time Fellowship-2006 Project: "Shameless-How America Lost Its Sense of Decency and How to Get It Back." Meghan currently writes about tech and advertising for Econsultancy.com in New York. Her work can be seen in publications like New York magazine, TimeOutNY, Spectator.org, World Magazine, Cottages and Gardens and The New York Press. She has also been on the staff at Wired, The New York Sun, and National Review. Shawn Macomber Full-Time Fellowship-2006 Project: "Another Worthy Victim: Preaching Class War Lite to the Bourgeoisie." Shawn is a Contributing Editor at The American Spectator magazine and freelance journalist in Philadelphia. He previously worked at AP. He received a B.A. summa cum laude in English/Journalism from the University of New Hampshire. Carrie Sheffield Part-Time Fellowship-2006 Project: "Latter-day Saints in the Policy Arena-The Political Influence and Climate of Modern Mormonism." Carrie is a master of public policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and a correspondent for The Washington Times. A former staff writer for POLITICO, The Hill and Deseret News, Carrie interned for Robert Novak. She has written for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsweek and The American Spectator. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University and completed a Fulbright fellowship in Berlin. Laura Vanderkam Full-Time Fellowship-2006 Project: "Full Court Press: The 25-Year Battle to Win the Judiciary." Laura works as a freelance writer in New York City. Her work has appeared in many publications including USA Today the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American and City Journal. She is the author of Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career without Paying Your Dues (McGraw-Hill)and the forthcoming 168 Hours (Portfolio, May 27, 2010). She graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Isaac Wolf Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-2006 Project: A magazine-length article on America's efforts to replace petroleum as the transportation industry's main fuel source. Isaac is a national reporter at the Scripps Howard News Service, where he reports for the investigative data-projects desk. He also conducts TV interviews and provides content for Scripps' affiliates. In January 2010, Isaac received a first-place award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for an investigation of the debt collection industry. Before coming to Scripps Howard in 2008, Isaac was a staff writer for the SouthtownStar, a Chicago-area newspaper. He has also written for Market News International and The Washington Times. Isaac graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. degree in economics in 2006. 2005 Rachel DiCarlo Currie Full-Time Fellowship-2005 Project: "The Great Train Snobbery: Why Liberal Ideologues are Wrong About Rail Transit, Highways, SUVs and the Suburbs." Rachel is chief speechwriter for Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ). She formerly worked as managing editor for Hudson Institute and as an assistant editor at The Weekly Standard, where she worked in the books and arts section. Her work has appeared in The Weekly Standard, the Wall Street Journal the Washington Times, Books and Culture, the Washington Examiner and other places. She has a B.A. in English literature. Jeffrey Jackson Full-Time Fellowship-2005 Project: "Equal Opportunity for Men: Why a Men's Movement is Forming." Jeffrey writes for the Taunton Daily Gazette in Massachusetts. He previously worked as a freelance journalist for two Rhode Island newspapers, The Chariho Times and The Warwick Beacon. He has also contributed articles to the New Oxford Review. Jeffrey received a B.A. in political science from Rhode Island College. Judith Jolma Full-Time Fellowship-2005 Project: "Murder Capital: An Examination of D.C.'s Criminal Record." Following her Phillips Foundation fellowship Judie worked as the deputy director of communications for Shared Hope International, a nonprofit that combats human trafficking. She previously worked as a metropolitan reporter and columnist at The Washington Times and has freelanced for World Magazine. She currently enjoys staying home full-time with her 2-year old son and her family will welcome the birth of a second boy in June. Katherine Mangu-Ward Part-Time Fellowship-2005 Project: "How 25 Environmentalists Set Out to Save the Planet - and Wound Up Making Everyone's Lives Just a Little Bit Worse." Katherine Mangu-Ward is a senior editor of Reason magazine and Reason.com. Previously, Mangu-Ward worked as a reporter for The Weekly Standard magazine and as a researcher at The New York Times op-ed page. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times online and numerous other publications. She received a B.A. in philosophy and political science from Yale University where she was editor-in-chief of Yale Free Press. Cara Hughes Marcano Part-Time Fellowship-2005 Project: "A Path Out of Purgatory? How a Few States are Building on The Reagan Legacy of Helping the Mentally Ill Transition from Silent Suffering to Independent Lives in Today's America." A bilingual journalist, Cara has worked for the Associated Press and Bloomberg News and has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Arizona Republic, and The International Herald Tribune. In 2004 she helped found Marketing Y Medios, a national business publication on marketing, advertising and Hispanic media in the U.S. Cara graduated from Columbia University with an M.S. in journalism and a B.A. in Latin American studies and English. Cara and her husband now own and run New Jersey's Hispanic newspaper, Reporte Hispano, and its companion Web Site, www.reportehispano.com. Cara and her husband are also card-carrying members of the "Second Shift" and very, very proud parents of a beautiful daughter, 17-month old Oriana Celeste. Anna Moya Full-Time Fellowship-2005 Project: "Democracy in the Birthplace of Communism." Anna spent a year in Moscow writing about "Democracy in the Birthplace of Communism." Anna died tragically in June of 2010. She was the founder and CEO of Moya Productions - an international TV production company with bureaus in Brussels, Sofia and, most recently Buenos Aires. After completing her fellowship, Anna covered the 2008 US presidential election for Russia Today TV as their Washington correspondent. Anna's broad international experience included reporting from Beslan, on the anniversary of the horrific terrorist hostage crisis by the Chechens in Beslan's public school. She monitored the presidential election in Belarus in March, 2006, as an assistant to a Wall Street Journal correspondent. Anna had articles published in various American publications. Born in Bulgaria, she became a U.S. citizen. Anna earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College where she was a staff writer for The Dartmouth. David Sanders Full-Time Fellowship-2005 Project: "The Reluctant Convert: Why Arkansas Has Not Joined the South's Republican Realignment." David is a political columnist for Stephens Media and the producer and host of "Unconventional Wisdom," a public affairs program carried by the Arkansas Educational Television Network (PBS). In 2008, Sanders' television program earned an Award of Distinction from the International Academy of the Visual Arts. He graduated from Ouachita University with a B.A. in political science and communications. Heather Wilhelm Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-2005 Project: "Unholy Alliance? Government, Religion, and Ideology in America." Heather serves as vice president of marketing and communications for the Illinois Policy Institute, a free-market think tank based in Chicago. Previously she worked in corporate communications at ABC Television, as an assistant editor at M. Shanken Communications, the publisher of Wine Spectator, and as a writer at Fox News Online. Heather's writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, RealClearPolitics.com, The Washington Examiner, National Review Online, The American and Doublethink magazine. She currently sits on the Board of Governors of Opportunity International, a Chicago-based microfinance group providing small business loans to impoverished entrepreneurs around the world. She earned an M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in English and political science from Northwestern University. 2004 Megan Basham Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-2004 Project: "The Parable Principle: How Liberal Ideologues Use Film to Control Political Discourse." Megan Basham is a freelance journalist and entertainment editor for World magazine. She writes for such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, Focus on the Family, and The American Spectator. She has made numerous appearances on The Today Show, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. Megan's first book, "Beside Every Successful Man" was published in September 2008 by Random House. Megan Basham Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-2004 Project: "The Parable Principle: How Liberal Ideologues Use Film to Control Political Discourse." Megan Basham is a freelance journalist and entertainment editor for World magazine. She writes for such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, Focus on the Family, and The American Spectator. She has made numerous appearances on The Today Show, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. Megan's first book, "Beside Every Successful Man" was published in September 2008 by Random House. Jeff Chu Part-Time Fellowship-2004 Project: "Whine Country: Complaint in American Life" investigating the history, culture and psychology of complaint in America. A veteran of Time and Conde Nast Portfolio, he is now articles editor at Fast Company. His most recent piece, the cover story for Fast Company's May issue. is a profile of the innovative strategic thinking of Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Jeff received a master's degree in politics of the world economy from the London School of Economics and an A.B. in politics from Princeton. Jeff Chu Part-Time Fellowship-2004 Project: "Whine Country: Complaint in American Life" investigating the history, culture and psychology of complaint in America. A veteran of Time and Conde Nast Portfolio, he is now articles editor at Fast Company. His most recent piece, the cover story for Fast Company's May issue. is a profile of the innovative strategic thinking of Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Jeff received a master's degree in politics of the world economy from the London School of Economics and an A.B. in politics from Princeton. Jesse DeConto Full-Time Fellowship-2004 Project: "Navidad: Hispanic Christmas Tree Workers in the North Carolina Mountains" focused on part of the South's fast-growing immigrant population. During his fellowship year, Jesse wrote articles for magazines such as Reason, Doublethink, E:The Environmental Magazine and Creative Loafing. He previously worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in New Hampshire and Ohio. He graduated from Cedarville College in Ohio with a B.A. in communication arts and philosophy. He is currently a staff writer with The News & Observer of Raleigh. Mollie Ziegler Hemingway Full-Time Fellowship-2004 Project: "Interfaith is No Faith: How Religious Relativism is Destroying the Church." Mollie is a colummist for Christianity Today, and a senior writer for GetReligion Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Federal Times, Radio & Records, Christian Research Journal, The New York Sun and National Review Online. She graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in economics. Joshua Kwan Full-Time Fellowship-2004 Project: "In the Shadows Cast by North Korea: An Examination of the People, Politics and Economic Forces at Work along the Borders of the Hermit Kingdom." Mr. Kwan is the Director of International Giving for the David Weekley Family Foundation, where he funds and helps grow non-profits that tackle global poverty. Previously, he worked for five years as a metro and business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News . In 2005, Mr. Kwan interned at The New York Times in its Strategic Planning Department. He earned a B.A. in government from Harvard University and received an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Diana Marrero Full-Time Fellowship-2004 Project: "Thriving Ties: An Exploration of the Connections between People in the United States and Cuba Despite a Decades-old Embargo and What These Ties Mean for Future Relations between the Two Countries." Diana is a Washington correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Previously, she also has worked at Gannett News Service in Washington, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and The Florida Times Union in Jacksonville. She graduated with a degree in political science from Barry University in Miami Shores, Fla. Rich Trzupek Part-Time Fellowship-2004 Project: "An Examination of the Effect of Environmental Regulatory Excess on Small to Mid-size Businesses, in the Context of 30 years of Continued Environmental Progress in the United States." Rich writes for Big Journalism, Big Hollywood, Front Page Magazine and is a columnist and reporter for Examiner Publications, a chain of newspapers serving Chicago's northwest suburbs. He has two decades of experience in environmental science and regulation and holds a B.A. in chemistry from Loyola University of Chicago. 2003 Tim Carney Full-Time Fellowship-2003 Project: "Regulatory Robber Barons," investigating how some big businesses work with government regulators to stifle competition. Tim's book, The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money, released in July 2006 by John J. Wiley & Sons,won first prize in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 2008 Culture of Enterprise competition as well as the 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for "best book on liberty" from Laissez-Faire Books. Currently, Tim is the lobbying editor at The Washington Examiner, where he writes two columns per week. Tim worked for veteran columnist Robert Novak for four years including as a reporter for the Evans-Novak Political Report. Tim has also been an editor at Regnery Publishing, the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and a reporter at Human Events. He received a B.A. in liberal arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He lives in Silver Spring, Md. with his wife, Katie and their three children. Tim Carney Full-Time Fellowship-2003 Project: "Regulatory Robber Barons," investigating how some big businesses work with government regulators to stifle competition. Tim's book, The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money, released in July 2006 by John J. Wiley & Sons,won first prize in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 2008 Culture of Enterprise competition as well as the 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for "best book on liberty" from Laissez-Faire Books. Currently, Tim is the lobbying editor at The Washington Examiner, where he writes two columns per week. Tim worked for veteran columnist Robert Novak for four years including as a reporter for the Evans-Novak Political Report. Tim has also been an editor at Regnery Publishing, the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and a reporter at Human Events. He received a B.A. in liberal arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He lives in Silver Spring, Md. with his wife, Katie and their three children. Paul Crespo Part-Time Fellowship-2003 Project: "Dueling Allegiances: Multiculturalism vs Patriotism after 9/11". *Paul is now running for U.S. Congress as a Reagan Republican in Florida's District 25 www.paulcrespo2010.com* Paul is Managing Director of Crespo Communications, LLC focusing on public affairs and advocacy. He also is President of Civica Americana a non-profit organization created to promote integration, patriotism, good citizenship and entrepreneurship in the Hispanic community, and explain America's constitutional system throughout Latin America. Bilingual in English and Spanish, Paul was an editorial writer and columnist for The Miami Herald and has written for for NewsMax, American Legion magazine and other venues. He also co-hosted a daily Spanish-language radio show for Univision Radio and taught U.S. politics at the University of Miami focusing on America's founding principles. He has appeared often on CNN, Fox News, Sky News, Telemundo and Univision. As an officer in the US Marine Corps he served in combat arms units and staff positions in the U.S., Europe and shipboard in the Far East. As a military attache he also was posted at U.S. embassies in the Balkans, Persian Gulf and Latin America. A graduate of Georgetown University he holds a master's degree in War Studies from the University of London and a second master's in International Relations from Cambridge University in the UK. Paul Crespo Part-Time Fellowship-2003 Project: "Dueling Allegiances: Multiculturalism vs Patriotism after 9/11". *Paul is now running for U.S. Congress as a Reagan Republican in Florida's District 25 www.paulcrespo2010.com* Paul is Managing Director of Crespo Communications, LLC focusing on public affairs and advocacy. He also is President of Civica Americana a non-profit organization created to promote integration, patriotism, good citizenship and entrepreneurship in the Hispanic community, and explain America's constitutional system throughout Latin America. Bilingual in English and Spanish, Paul was an editorial writer and columnist for The Miami Herald and has written for for NewsMax, American Legion magazine and other venues. He also co-hosted a daily Spanish-language radio show for Univision Radio and taught U.S. politics at the University of Miami focusing on America's founding principles. He has appeared often on CNN, Fox News, Sky News, Telemundo and Univision. As an officer in the US Marine Corps he served in combat arms units and staff positions in the U.S., Europe and shipboard in the Far East. As a military attache he also was posted at U.S. embassies in the Balkans, Persian Gulf and Latin America. A graduate of Georgetown University he holds a master's degree in War Studies from the University of London and a second master's in International Relations from Cambridge University in the UK. Brett Decker Part-Time Fellowship-2003 Project: "Terror's Backyard: The New Threat to America from Southeast Asia," focusing on the growing terrorist threat in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Brett is the editorial page editor of The Washington Times. He spent the previous five years as senior vice president at the Export-Import Bank and Pentagon Federal Credit Union. He served as editorial page writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and for the Far Eastern Economic Review. An adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, he received a Master's in military strategy from the U.S. Naval War College, a Master's in government from Johns Hopkins and a B.A. in political science from Albion College. Brett's first book, "Global Filipino," was published by Regnery in Dec. 2008. Mario Fantini Full-Time Fellowship-2003 Project: An examination of the cultural and political transformation of the State of Vermont from a conservative, Republican state to a liberal, Democratic one. Before receiving a Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship, Mario worked in South America as a reporter and editorial writer for The Bolivian Times, correspondent for Bridge News/Telerate and CNN, and external affairs specialist at the World Bank. In 2005, he was awarded a 2-year fellowship by the European Union to pursue studies in journalism and politics in Denmark, Holland and England. Between semesters, he was an editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, and worked as a reporter for Bloomberg New Energy Finance in London. He has since worked as editor/writer for the Far Eastern Economic review, Keybridge Communications and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. He is currently a freelance writer based in Vienna, Austria. Mario serves on the boards of The Dartmouth Review and the Lyceum Society of Vermont. He is also a member of the Phillips Foundation Advisory Board and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar. He earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and has Master's degrees in international development, public policy and financial journalism. Andrea Seton Kirk Part-Time Fellowship-2003 Project: "The Pontificate of John Paul II and the Administration of George W. Bush: Points of Convergence and Divergence in Social and Foreign Policy." Andrea is a voice talent for the multimedia Catholic news website H2Onews.org, a founding staff member of the Vatican Studies Center of the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, and a freelance journalist who splits her time between Nashua, New Hampshire and Rome, Italy. She received an M.A. in liberal arts from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Mike Porath Full-Time Fellowship-2003 Project: "Opening a Closed Society: Reform in Saudi Arabia," examining the recent social, political, economic and educational reforms in Saudi Arabia. Mike is Senior Vice President of Programming at Buzz Media. Previously he was editor-in-chief of AOL News and worked as a writer, editor and producer at NYTimes.com, MSNBC.com and ABCNews.com. He holds a B.A. from the College of William and Mary. Evelina Shmukler Full-Time Fellowship-2003 Project: "Pyramid Scheme: The Pitfalls and Possibilities of U.S. Economic Aid to Egypt." After leaving Cairo, Evelina traveled to Birmingham, Ala., to cover a corporate fraud trial and then to Mississippi to cover the after-effects of Hurricane Katrina for The Wall Street Journal. She later visited the Gulf Coast repeatedly to volunteer in the recovery efforts. One of the projects she started was a newsletter for the citizens of Pass Christian, Miss., one of the small cities hardest-hit by the storm. That newsletter eventually became a full-fledged newspaper, the Pass Christian Gazebo Gazette, a weekly newspaper which has been in continuous operation since 2006. In 2008 she received an Alumni Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in recognition of her efforts in Pass Christian after Hurricane Katrina. Previously, Evelina was a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in London, and a staff writer at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. She received an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in English from Swarthmore College. Mark Stricherz Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-2003 Project: "The Rise of the Latte Liberals: How the Democrats Embraced Identity Politics and Abandoned their New Deal Base." Mark is the author of Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People's Party (Encounter Books 2007), which grew out of his research. He is a writer-producer for The McLaughlin Group and a blogger for TrueSlant.com. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The New Republic and The Weekly Standard, among other publications. A native of San Francisco, he, his wife, and two daughters live in the Washington, D.C. region. 2002 Damien Cave Full-Time Fellowship-2002 Project: "Beach Blanket Capitalism," focusing on four aspects of the Cuban government's effort to increase tourism: American laws and their effect on Cuban travel policy; the changing fortune of underground entrepreneurs; the effects of "tourism apartheid" on local citizens; and the role that tourism training schools play in exacerbating prejudices against race, class and political creed. Damien is now the Miami bureau chief for The New York Times, after spending 18 months on assignment for the paper in Iraq. He previously worked as an associate editor at Rolling Stone, a senior writer for Salon.com, and as a staff writer for the Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire. He received a B.A. in English from Boston College and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. Damien Cave Full-Time Fellowship-2002 Project: "Beach Blanket Capitalism," focusing on four aspects of the Cuban government's effort to increase tourism: American laws and their effect on Cuban travel policy; the changing fortune of underground entrepreneurs; the effects of "tourism apartheid" on local citizens; and the role that tourism training schools play in exacerbating prejudices against race, class and political creed. Damien is now the Miami bureau chief for The New York Times, after spending 18 months on assignment for the paper in Iraq. He previously worked as an associate editor at Rolling Stone, a senior writer for Salon.com, and as a staff writer for the Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire. He received a B.A. in English from Boston College and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. Jennifer Kabbany Dawson Part-Time Fellowship-2002 Project: "A Critical Analysis of the Facts and Myths Surrounding Abortion." Currently, Jennifer is a freelance writer and education columnist. Previously, she held editorial positions at FrontPage Magazine.com in Los Angeles, and The Weekly Standard and The Washington Times. Jennifer graduated from San Diego State University with a bachelor's degree in communications. Mark Hemingway Full-Time Fellowship-2002 Project: "Anti-Everything: Anti-Globalization, Anti-War, Resurrected Radicalism and its Un-American Roots," examining the ideas and beliefs of young people in the anti-globalization and anti-war movements. Currently he is an editorial writer for The Washington Examiner. Previously, Mark worked as a reporter and staff writer at National Review Online. He has also worked at Hudson Institute, USA Today and Market News International. He has been a Global Prosperity Initiative fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a B.S. in journalism, and is married to Phillips Foundation fellow Mollie Ziegler Hemingway. They have two daughters, Evangeline and Linden. Sam MacDonald Full-Time Fellowship-2002 Project: Sam explored the conflict between loggers and environmentalists in the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania. Rowman & Littlefield published Sam's fellowship as a book, The Agony of an American Wilderness, in March 2005. His next book, a memoir called The Urban Hermit, was released by St. Martin's Press in December 2008, and has received positive reviews in The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the Boston Globe and a host of other media outlets. He lives with his wife, and four children in rural Ridgway, Pennsylvania, where he was born and raised. He currently works in economic development, but is still writing and teaching as well. Jaime Sneider Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-2002 Project: "Notes From an Ivy League Asylum." Jaime Sneider has written articles for the New York Times, New York Daily News, and New York Post. After graduating from Columbia University in 2002, he held a variety of positions including Deputy Associate Director of the White House Communications Office, speechwriter to Bill Simon, and researcher to William F. Buckley Jr. He graduated from Columbia Law School in May 2008 after which he served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Danny J. Boggs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is now a lawyer in New York. Beth Henary Watson Part-Time Fellowship-2002 Project: "No More Favorites?" produced a series of articles on the state of racial preferences in college admissions and the rise of the diversity rationale for affirmative action. Articles related to her fellowship were published in The Weekly Standard, the Texas Education Review, The Houston Chronicle, and American Enterprise Magazine Online. An honors graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Beth worked for two years as an editorial assistant at The Weekly Standard. After leaving The Standard, she served on the copy desk at a daily newspaper and most recently worked for two years as the general manager/editor of an award-winning newspaper in a Texas resort community. She has been the executive director of the chamber of commerce in Mineral Wells, Texas, since 2007. 2001 Tony Mecia Part-Time Fellowship-2001 Project: "The Impact of Anti-Sprawl Policies on America's Cities," focusing on the "smart growth" movement and the effects of "smart growth" policies on cities across the nation. After more than a decade as a reporter and editor at the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, Tony left the paper in 2009 andis a freelance writer focusing on business and politics. He holds a B.A. in political science and history from Duke University and an M.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Catherine Edwards Sanders Full-Time Fellowship-2001 Project: Catherine devoted her fellowship to researching a book on Wicca and Neopaganism in America. Her book, Wicca's Charm, was published in the autumn of 2005 by Shaw books, a division of Random House. Wicca's Charm was widely reviewed. She has written for The Washington Times, The Weekly Standard, Insight Magazine, World Magazine, National Review, Prism Magazine, The Christian Research Journal, Coastal Living and The McLaughlin Group television program. Her writing has generated local and national television and radio appearances. Catherine has worked in government service at the Department of Justice and at the Corporation for National and Community Service. She currently works as the speechwriter to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. She is a graduate of Wake Forest University and lives in northern Virginia with her husband, Wallace and daughter Caroline. Naomi Schaefer Riley Full-Time Fellowship-2001 Project: "Combining Faith and Reason: The Revival of Religious Higher Education in America." Naomi is the author of God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America (St. Martin's, 2005). She is currently an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values. she is working on a book about tenure in higher education, to be published next year by Ivan Dee, and another book on the rise of interfaith marriage in America. Until recently she served as deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal's Taste page. Prior to joining the Journal, she founded In Character, a magazine published by the John M. Templeton Foundation. Her writing has also been published in the Boston Globe the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. Pamela Winnick Part-Time Fellowship-2001 Project: "Examination of How Media and Established Scientists Treat the Subject of Evolution," analyzing the dispute over the teaching of evolution. Pam is now a freelance journalist whose first book, "A Jealous God: Science's Crusade Against Religion" was released on November 1, 2005. Until recently she was a reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She received a B.A. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, an M.A. in English from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from Columbia University, where she was an editor of the law review and a Stone Scholar. After practicing law for many years, Pam decided to pursue a journalism career, earning an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University in 1999. Pam and her husband, syndicated columnist Jack Kelly, are working on a historical novel about the American Revolution. 2000 Colleen Carroll Campbell Full-Time Fellowship-2000 Project: "The New Faithful," examining religious devotion among young adults. Colleen is a columnist, television and radio host, think-tank fellow, former presidential speechwriter, and author of "The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy (Loyola 2002). She writes a weekly op-ed column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, blogs on religion for The New York Times and The Washington Post and contributes articles to First Things, The Weekly Standard and National Review Online. A guest commentator on such networks as FOX News, CNN, PBS,and MSNBC, Colleen hosts her own television and radio show, "Faith & Culture," on EWTN, the world's largest religious media network, and on Sirius Satellite Radio and Relevant Radio. She served as a speechwriter to President George W. Bush, working directly with the President on major domestic policy addresses, and now serves as a fellow with the D.C.- based Ethics and Public Policy Center. Winner of the Phillips Foundation's Distinguished Conservative Leader of the Year Award in 2008, Colleen speaks to audiences across America and lives in St. Louis with her husband and children. Her website is www.colleen-campbell.com. Colleen Carroll Campbell Full-Time Fellowship-2000 Project: "The New Faithful," examining religious devotion among young adults. Colleen is a columnist, television and radio host, think-tank fellow, former presidential speechwriter, and author of "The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy (Loyola 2002). She writes a weekly op-ed column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, blogs on religion for The New York Times and The Washington Post and contributes articles to First Things, The Weekly Standard and National Review Online. A guest commentator on such networks as FOX News, CNN, PBS,and MSNBC, Colleen hosts her own television and radio show, "Faith & Culture," on EWTN, the world's largest religious media network, and on Sirius Satellite Radio and Relevant Radio. She served as a speechwriter to President George W. Bush, working directly with the President on major domestic policy addresses, and now serves as a fellow with the D.C.- based Ethics and Public Policy Center. Winner of the Phillips Foundation's Distinguished Conservative Leader of the Year Award in 2008, Colleen speaks to audiences across America and lives in St. Louis with her husband and children. Her website is www.colleen-campbell.com. Eric Cohen Part-Time Fellowship-2000 Project: "The Next War of the Gods: Genetic Capitalism and the Future of American Politics." Eric is executive director of the Tikvah Fund, a foundation devoted to Jewish ideas. He is founding editor and editor-at-large of The New Atlantis and was director of the bioethics program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. He was previously a fellow at the New America Foundation, managing editor of The Public Interest, and a senior advisor to the President's Council on Bioethics. Mr. Cohen's essays and articles have appeared in The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, the Public Interest, First Things, Commentary the Hastings Center Report, and elsewhere. He is the co-editor (with William Kristol) of The Future is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). His new book, In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology was published by Encounter Books in July 2008. Eric Cohen Part-Time Fellowship-2000 Project: "The Next War of the Gods: Genetic Capitalism and the Future of American Politics." Eric is executive director of the Tikvah Fund, a foundation devoted to Jewish ideas. He is founding editor and editor-at-large of The New Atlantis and was director of the bioethics program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. He was previously a fellow at the New America Foundation, managing editor of The Public Interest, and a senior advisor to the President's Council on Bioethics. Mr. Cohen's essays and articles have appeared in The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, the Public Interest, First Things, Commentary the Hastings Center Report, and elsewhere. He is the co-editor (with William Kristol) of The Future is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). His new book, In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology was published by Encounter Books in July 2008. Stephen Hayes Part-Time Fellowship-2000 Project: "Old-Time Politics in a New Century: Race and the 2000 Elections." Stephen F. Hayes is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard and a Fox News political contributor. He previously served as a CNN commentator and appeared daily on "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." Stephen is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America and Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Reason, National Review and many other publications. He is a regular commentator on politics and policy, with appearances on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," "The Today Show," "Good Morning America," "Meet the Press," "Fox News Sunday," "The O'Reilly Factor," "Hannity and Colmes, " "Hardball with Chris Matthews," HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart". Stephen Hayes is a native of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and a graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He studied public policy at Georgetown University and received his MS from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He previously worked as a senior writer at National Journal's Hotline and as director of the Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University, a program run by The Fund for American Studies. He lives near Annapolis, Maryland with his wife, three children and their black lab. Shai Oster Full-Time Fellowship-2000 Project: "Mao's Muddle? China's Attempt to Embrace American Prosperity and Reject American Ideals," looking at the problems and solutions prompted by Chinese government policy. Shai is presently a reporter with The Wall Street Journal, based in Beijing covering energy and the environment. He previously served as Beijing Bureau Chief for AsiaWeek and as Beijing correspondent for the Bureau of National Affairs and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has also covered OPEC for Dow Jones Newswires in London. In June of 2008, Shai was presented with the Osborn Elliott Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Asia Society. In 2007 he won the Pulitzer prize for International Reporting as part of the Beijing bureau for "his sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution." Shai also received the 2007 George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting. In addition, he won the 2005 Online Business Journalist of the Year Award for coverage of Saudi Arabia. He also captured the Dow Jones Newswires Award for Journalistic Excellence in 2003-2004 for team coverage of OPEC. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in history and an M.S. in journalism. 1999 Lila de Tantillo Full-Time Fellowship-1999 Project: "The Toll of Feminism on American Women and Society," examined the material effects of feminism on its supposed beneficiaries. Lila is now director of FranklinInitiatives.com, a career consulting firm that helps job seekers prepare resumes and application materials. She is also certified as a CPC medical coder by the American Academy of Professional Coders. Her background in daily journalism includes experiences at The Washington Post, The Miami Herald and USA Today. Lila received a B.A. degree from Yale University and an M.S. from Columbia School of Journalism. Marlon Millner Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-1999 Project: A magazine article about the black Pentecostal experience and the role of Pentecostalism in inspiring social and political upward mobility for African Americans. Marlon served as a reporter with Washington Business Journal, and later as a contributing editor with LocalBusiness.com, a business news service focusing on private and small publicly traded emerging growth companies. He has completed all course requirements for his master of divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School and presently serves as senior writer and managing editor for International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches USA in Valley Forge, Penn. Marlon earned a B.A. degree from Morehouse College. Matthew Robinson Full-Time Fellowship-1999 Project: "Mobocracy: How the Media's Obsession with Polling Twists the News, Alters Elections, and Undermines Democracy." Matt's fellowship work culminated in a book by the same title published in January, 2002, by Prima Publishing, a division of Random House. He has served as a special assistant for speechwriting to President Bush. He has also served as a special assistant to two Attorneys General, managing editor of Human Events and guest opinion editor and writer for Investor's Business Daily in Los Angeles. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego. He is currently Executive Communications Advisor to the Management Committee and ExxonMobil. Nick Slepko Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-1999 Project: To analyze philanthropy and the faith community in the Pacific Northwest, where church attendance is the lowest in America. Nick is currently directing a market-based conservation project in the South Pacific for the American Museum of Natural History and Conservation International. Part of the project involves developing a trust fund based on people and ideas gained through his fellowship experience. Nick is also advising the American University of Iraq and other projects in Africa, Iran, and the former Soviet Union. He received a B.A. in geography from the University of Washington. 1998 Brian Brown Full-Time Fellowship-1998 Project: A series of articles on the loss of virtue in America. Brian had fellowship-related articles published in The Wall Street Journal, American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, American Enterprise and The Washington Times. Currently, Brian is working on start-ups in Silicon Valley and is on the boards of several companies. He is working on some fiction and nonfiction projects. Previously, he was deputy editorial page editor for The Wall Street Journal Europe. Brian earned a J.D. at the McGeorge School of Law, a master's degree from Cambridge University and a B.A. degree from Vassar College. Drew Cline Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-1998 Project: An examination of how journalism schools are doing an inadequate job of educating students in two vital areas: politics and economics. Drew is editorial page editor of The New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News in Manchester, N.H. Previously, he was a reporter and director of publications for the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, N.C., and wrote a weekly column for The News & Observer of Raleigh. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drew Cline Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-1998 Project: An examination of how journalism schools are doing an inadequate job of educating students in two vital areas: politics and economics. Drew is editorial page editor of The New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News in Manchester, N.H. Previously, he was a reporter and director of publications for the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, N.C., and wrote a weekly column for The News & Observer of Raleigh. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. John Gehring Part-Time Fellowship-1998 Project: Study of the challenges facing urban public schools, and what their failure means for a democracy entering the 21st century, through the prism of Baltimore's public school system. John has had articles published in The Catholic Review, The Emmitsburg Regional Dispatch, Teacher Magazine and in Education Week. John is currently Director of Communications for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. He worked at Education Week and as education reporter for the Gazette Newspapers in Frederick, Md. He holds a master's degree from Columbia University and a B.A. from Mount Saint Mary's College. Daniel McAdams Part-Time Fellowship-1998 Project: Post Cold War U.S. foreign policy in Central Europe. Daniel now works as Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). Daniel completed the bulk of his fellowship project in Budapest, Hungary, where he lived and worked for seven years before coming to Washington. He holds an M.A. in international relations from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. 1997 Chad Bowman Full-Time Fellowship-1997 Project: A study of the economic lessons to be learned from the revival of factories in the United States. His published fellowship work appeared in Empire State Report magazine and the Watertown Daily Times. Before his fellowship, Chad was a staff writer for the Watertown Daily Times. For three years after the fellowship, he covered international trade and the health care industry for the Bureau of National Affairs Inc. (BNA). Chad earned his law degree from Georgetown University in May 2003 and now practices with the media law firm of Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Schulz, LLP, in Washington, D.C., representing news and entertainment media in defamation, privacy, newsgathering, access, copyright, trademark, marketing and related First Amendment matters. He is a member of the ABA Forum on Communications Law, co-author of the "Survey of Maryland Privacy and Related Claims Against the Media" section of the Media Law Resource Center's annual Media Privacy Related LawSurvey, and his recent articles include "Litigating Facsimile Advertising" in the ABA Communications Lawyer (November 2008) and "Lee v DOJ: Journalists Seek High Court Review on Scope of Reporter's Privilege in Federal Civil Cases," in the ABA Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Committee News (Winter 2006). He earned a bachelor's degree from Alfred University. Todd Seavey Part-Time Fellowship-1997 Project: An essay series on "Tradition and Reason," examining areas such as architecture, music, folk medicine and psychology. He has written pieces based on the project for Live4now.com, Skeptical Inquirer, NationalReview.com, TCSDaily.com, Spiked-Online.com, the 2006 APEE convention, and HealthFactsAndFears.com, and it was the basis for one of the monthly bar debates he hosts in Manhattan. An essay derived from the project, called "Conservatism for Punks," appears in the book Proud to Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation edited by Jonah Goldberg (HarperCollins, October 2010). Since receiving his award, Seavey has worked for John Stossel, the American Council on Science and Health, and now Fox's Andrew Napolitano. His blog is ToddSeavey.com and also bears the slogan "conservatism for punks." He is a 1991 graduate of Brown University. Bretigne Shaffer Part-Time Fellowship-1997 Project: A series of articles examining Hong Kong as a model for a free-market economy. Bretigne is a writer and filmmaker. She served as an editorial page writer for The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and has published in The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Europe and Reason magazine. Bretigne is the author of "Memoirs of a Gaigin" and "Why Mommy Loves the State". She studied economics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. 1996 Stacy Mattingly Full-Time Fellowship-1996 Project: The study of a highly charged school prayer case in northern Mississippi. Stacy is coauthor of several books, including New York Times bestseller, Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero, with Ashley Smith; Prisoners of Hope: The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan with American aid workers Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer; and four books with Ruth Graham, daughter of Ruth and Billy Graham. Dan Richardson Part-Time Fellowship-1996 Project: An investigation into the growing Patriot movement in America. Dan now writes and edits New West Columbia Gorge, a regional news-and-arts blog (www.newwest.net/gorge). Prior to his work with New West, he was the publisher of The Goldendale Sentinel, a 126-year-old weekly paper in Washington State. He is also helping to raise his young daughter, Zora Joy Richardson. Previously, Dan launched The Current, an independent alternative newspaper in the Columbia River Gorge. He worked as a reporter for the Inlander newsweekly in Spokane and as a daily newspaper reporter in New England. Dan earned a B.A. in history and graduated from the Honors program at the University of Puget Sound. 1995 Michael Chapman Full-Time Fellowship-1995 Project: An investigation into J. Robert Oppenheimer and his alleged involvement in passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Michael has been published in Investor's Business Daily, Orange County Register, Human Events, Moscow Times and Congressional Quarterly. His research was utilized in the books The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors by Eric Breindel and Herbert Romerstein, The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell, From West to East: California and The American Scene by Stephen Schwartz, and Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed America by Jeffold and Leona Schecter. He graduated with special honors from the University of Chicago, and was the co-winner of the 1989 Elsie F. Filippi Memorial Prize in Poetry at the University of Chicago. He is the managing editor of CNSNews.com. Michael Chapman Full-Time Fellowship-1995 Project: An investigation into J. Robert Oppenheimer and his alleged involvement in passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Michael has been published in Investor's Business Daily, Orange County Register, Human Events, Moscow Times and Congressional Quarterly. His research was utilized in the books The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors by Eric Breindel and Herbert Romerstein, The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell, From West to East: California and The American Scene by Stephen Schwartz, and Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed America by Jeffold and Leona Schecter. He graduated with special honors from the University of Chicago, and was the co-winner of the 1989 Elsie F. Filippi Memorial Prize in Poetry at the University of Chicago. He is the managing editor of CNSNews.com. Read Mercer Schuchardt Special Alumni Fund Fellowship-1995 Project: An analysis of the "Babies as Dolls" phenomenon, also known as the "Cult of the Baby," that has become a part of American culture. His fellowship work was published in Regeneration Quarterly and reprinted in Human Life Review. His most recent work was the collection, You Do Not Talk About Fight Club. He is Associate Professor of Communication at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, where he and his wife Rachel homeschool their eight children. 1994 John Meroney Full-Time Fellowship-1994 Project: A study about the beliefs and opinions of Generation X. Meroney graduated from Wake Forest. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is completing a book, Rehearsals for a Lead Role: Ronald Reagan in The Hollywood Wars, and is also at work on a documentary feature film on the same subject. Meroney provides the audio commentary, with director Vincent Sherman, for Ronald Reagan: The Signature Collection, a DVD set of several Reagan films, released by Warner Bros.
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