Alexandra Hudson
Project: “Make ‘Porching’ Great Again: How Front Porch Citizenship Can Save Democracy and the Soul of a Nation”
Alexandra Hudson is passionate about the way that ideas and storytelling can change people’s lives. She studied history and political philosophy at Trinity Western University and earned her master’s degree in international comparative social policy at the London School of Economics as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar. She served as a policy advisor to the U.S. Department of Education, where she worked to administer an annual budget of $16 billion, and is currently a fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). She has appeared on Fox News, and her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The American Conservative, the Washington Examiner, The Claremont Review of Books, The Catholic Herald, Commentary Magazine and Quillette. She lives with her husband in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Chris Moody
Project: “Freedom on the Fringes: A 35,000-mile Journey in Search of a More Meaningful American Dream”
Chris Moody is an award-winning journalist who most recently covered politics, technology and travel for CNN, where he hosted the political video series, “Being Moody.” He has written for Yahoo News, The New Republic, Reason, Book Forum, The Scripps-Howard News Service, The Palm Beach Post and The Daily Caller. Moody has appeared on CNN, HLN, Fox News, MSNBC and dozens of radio programs. He lives full-time on the road in an off-grid tiny house he and his wife built into a cargo van.
Serena Sigillito
Project: “Women’s Work: How Modern Moms Find Fulfillment in Caregiving and Career Building”
Serena Sigillito is editor of Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Dallas and her master’s degree at the Catholic University of America. Previously, she conducted research on higher education for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, focusing on the decline of rigorous core curricula. In addition to Public Discourse, Sigillito has written for First Things, National Review, America, The Federalist, Aleteia, Verily Magazine and I Believe in Love. Sigillito was a 2015 Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a 2018-2019 fellow at the Leonine Forum. She lives in the Princeton, New Jersey, area with her husband and their two daughters.
Kristin Tate
Project: “Unlimited Government: The Unchecked Growth of America’s Federal Workforce”
Kristin Tate is an author and columnist focused on taxation, federal regulation and government spending. Her latest book, “The Liberal Invasion of Red State America,” will be published by Regnery Publishing in 2020. Her weekly column in The Hill newspaper is regularly featured on Real Clear Politics and national cable news networks. Tate also serves as an analyst for the nonprofit group Young Americans for Liberty, advising the organization in its mission to promote limited government and fiscal responsibility.
Mene Ukueberuwa
Project: “Work in Progress: How Industry Serves the Needs of the American People”
Mene Ukueberuwa is an assistant editorial features editor at The Wall Street Journal, where he edits and contributes op-eds. Before joining The Journal in 2018, he was an editor at City Journal and The New Criterion. He grew up in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, and holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Dartmouth College.
Benjamin Weingarten
Project: “Unseen Revolution: The Bold Transformation of America’s China Policy”
Ben Weingarten is a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, fellow at the Claremont Institute and senior contributor at The Federalist. He writes and speaks about national security and foreign policy, economics, politics and political philosophy, contributing regularly to publications including City Journal, The Claremont Review of Books, Conservative Review, PJ Media and the Washington Examiner. Weingarten is the host and producer of the “Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten” podcast, and frequent guest host for radio personalities including Buck Sexton and Andrew Wilkow. He is also the founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, a media consulting and production company dedicated to advancing an America First national security/foreign policy, individual liberty and limited government. Weingarten was selected as a 2015 Publius Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He previously served as an editor, producer and publishing manager at The Blaze. Weingarten began his career as an investment banker at the New York-based boutique investment bank Centerview Partners. He is a 2010 graduate of Columbia University where he majored in economics-political science. Weingarten will publish his first book with Bombardier Books in March 2020.
Grace Stark
Project: “50 Years of Ignoring Birth Control Side Effects and Health Risks: Examining the Reality of How Hormonal Contraceptives Hurt Women’s Health”
After graduating from Georgetown University (NHS 2014) where she was a founding member of the Georgetown University Undergraduate Bioethics Society and Bioethics Bowl team, Stark worked as an ORISE Fellow at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA, focusing on evaluating the Breakthrough Therapy program and organizing Patient-Focused Drug Development meetings. In 2015, Stark and her husband Michael moved to Guam, where they had their first child and where Grace completed her master’s degree in Bioethics and Health Policy from Loyola University Chicago. Her master’s capstone, titled “Catholic Social Teaching and America’s Sub-Optimal Breastfeeding Rate: Where Faith and Policy Should Meet to Combat Injustice,” was published in the November 2017 special issue of The Linacre Quarterly on women’s health. Since moving to San Diego in 2017, Stark and her husband have welcomed a second child, and she has focused on her career as a freelance writer. She has a particular interest in women’s health, contemporary issues in bioethics, Catholicism and culture, and her work has been featured in such publications as Natural Womanhood, Verily Magazine, The Public Discourse, The Federalist, The American Conservative and other outlets.