AUDREY FAHLBERG
2024-25 John Farley Alumni Fund Fellowship Fellow
Project: Who’s Next? The Politicians, Policies and Personnel shaping a shifting GOP
Audrey Fahlberg is a political reporter for National Review, where she covers major trends in American politics on Capitol Hill and on the campaign trail. Prior to joining National Review in October 2023, Audrey was a campaign reporter at The Dispatch and a Bartley Fellow at the Wall Street Journal. Originally from McLean, Virginia, Audrey graduated from the University of Virginia with an interdisciplinary degree in Political Philosophy, Policy and Law. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.
CARINE HAJJAR
Project: Iran and its Proxies: A Return to an Unstable Middle East
Carine Hajjar is an opinion writer and member of the Boston Globe’s Editorial Board, where she covers immigration, higher education, foreign policy, and the 2024 presidential election. She has also written for National Review and the Wall Street Journal opinion page, where she was The Fund for American Studies’ 2022-23 Joseph Rago Memorial Fellow for Excellence in Journalism. Carine graduated from Harvard College in 2021, where she studied government and economics and wrote a column about free speech on campus for the Crimson. She grew up in Massachusetts and lives between New York City and Boston.
PARK MACDOUGALD
Project: The NGO Borg: How Left-Wing Oligarchs, Operators, and Activists Are Undermining Our Democracy
Park MacDougald is the senior writer at The Scroll, Tablet Magazine’s daily afternoon newsletter and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Previously, he was an editor and staff writer at UnHerd, the Life & Arts editor at the Washington Examiner magazine and a staff editor at Foreign Affairs. A graduate of the University of Georgia, he was raised in Atlanta and now lives in New York.
EMMET PENNEY
Project: Blacked Out: America’s Coming Electricity Crisis
Emmet Penney is a contributing editor at Compact Magazine and creator of the Nuclear Barbarians Substack and podcast. His work has appeared in Spectator World, American Affairs, Claremont Review of Books and elsewhere.
RACHEL ROTH ALDHIZER
Project: Why Have Children: How a Utilitarian View of Children Created a Fertility Crisis
Rachel Roth Aldhizer is an independent journalist covering disability and abortion policy, assisted reproductive technologies, and a theology of suffering. Her work has been featured in First Things, National Review, Public Discourse, Plough and others. Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Rachel is a graduate of Wake Forest University. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with her husband and four young children, one of whom is profoundly disabled.
HANNAH ROWAN
Project: Adjusting to Scale: Ozempic and America’s Weight-Loss Problem
Hannah Rowan is managing editor of Modern Age. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Lamp magazine, the New Criterion, and the Wall Street Journal. She has worked in publishing and runs an editorial services business. A native Nebraskan, she is a graduate of Hillsdale College and lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and daughter.
NIC ROWAN
Project: The New American Way of Death
Nic Rowan is managing editor of The Lamp magazine. He is a frequent contributor to the American Conservative, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and the Washington Examiner, where he covered the Supreme Court prior to The Lamp. Along with his wife, he runs an editorial services business. He is a graduate of Hillsdale College and lives five blocks from his birthplace in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.