Bio:

Silverdale, Wash., attends Whitworth University and is majoring in political science.   A Dean’s List student and Eagle Scout, he writes for The Whitworthian, the student newspaper and was a Division I winner of the Whitworth Writing Awards competition.  He is an officer of the Political Awareness Club, his school’s only student political group. He also was the 2009 Washington runner-up in the American Legion High School Oratorical Contest.  He is an alumnus of the Institute for Humane Studies’ “Liberty and Society” seminar.  He was a delegate to the 2010 Washington State GOP Convention.

School: WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY