Underscored Podcast Creators & Guests

Stephen Kent is the spokesperson for Young Voices, a political commentator, and Star Wars fanatic. He is a communications and public relations professional living in the Raleigh, NC area and has had the opportunity to do broadcast media (cable news, talk radio, local TV, podcasts) over 50x and has booked other guests for more than 400 appearances. Stephen Kent has been seen on Fox Business, TheBlaze with Glenn Beck for political chatter or on WUSA 9 and Fox 5 DC talking about the latest in entertainment news. He has also written Op-Ed pieces for several publications including USA Today.He hosts the popular Star Wars & politics podcast, Beltway Banthas with more than 150 episodes. Beltway Banthas helped launch Kent into public speaking opportunities and fan conventions and political events, then on to TV as a commentator.

James Czerniawski is a policy analyst at Libertas Institute.

Journalist, DC Examiner 30 under 30 || Bylines in at USA Today, NRO, Federalist

Ross DeVol is an economist, researcher, and president & CEO of Heartland Forward.

Editor at The National Interest. Korean Studies Fellow at CFTNI. Writer.

Alex Muresianu is a student at Tufts University and treasurer of the College Republicans chapter. He is pursuing a degree in economics, and also contributes to Lone Conservative, a website for conservatives in college and graduate school, on which he covers a mix of cultural issues and economic policy.

Jerrod A. Laber is a Washington-based foreign policy writer and journalist, who also writes about Appalachia, issues of race in America, arts & culture, and cities. His work has been published in The Independent UK, Defense One, Washington Examiner, The National Interest, The American Conservative, the Columbus Dispatch, Real Clear Defense, and 100 Days in Appalachia, among other outlets.Previously, he was a Writing Fellow with America’s Future Foundation and a Free Society Fellow with Young Voices. He now serves as a Fellow for Defense Priorities.

Daniel was born and raised in Venezuela, where he went to high school and experienced firsthand the consequences of their socialist regime. In 2016, Daniel was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to attend Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where he is currently a junior majoring in Quantitative Economics. During his two years in college, Daniel has worked part-time at the Office of International Affairs, presided his residential council, and founded the Model United Nations student group. He is currently an intern at Economic Policies for the 21st century, part of the Manhattan Institute.

Abdulsamod Balogun is an Agora Fellow at Young Voices

Conner D. Drigotas is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at AFFT, an Adjunct Professor at Lehigh University, and author of Work for Liberty.

Ryan Khurana is Executive Director of the Institute for Advancing Prosperity, a non-profit focusing on the social impacts of technology. He previously worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. He is a graduate of the University of Manchester, where his dissertation was on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the labour force. He lives in Toronto, Canada

Tom is a third year undergraduate studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Warwick. He is most interested in poverty alleviation, free speech on campus and education policy.

Kristiana Bolzman is a grant-writer for a non-partisan think tank in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied politics and journalism at Hillsdale College, graduated from The Heritage Foundation’s Young Leaders Program, served at Fox News and on Capitol Hill, and is a Generation Liberty Fellow at the State Policy Network.

Soon to be law student, freelance journalist (former Reason intern, former associate editor at Young Voices), filmmaker, film critic, feminist, LG(B)T— she/her

Nate Hochman is an intern at National Review.

Dave Sussman is a nationally recognized business advocate, economist, trainer, and writer. He’s a speaker at the SBA, SCORE, and has contributed at FOX News, FOX Business Network, CNNfn, published in Washington Post, Huffington Post, Money Matters and many radio interviews throughout North America. Dave is a Contributor at Ricochet and purveyor at WhiskeyPolitics.net.

Jacob Bruggeman is a policy writer, history editor at Cleveland Review of Books, and contributor at Young Voice.

Natalie Dowzicky graduated from the University of Richmond with a BA in Leadership studies. She currently works as a researcher for a D.C.-based think tank dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. She regularly contributes to libertarianism.org to examine how traditional political philosophies overlap with the ever-changing sphere of modern politics.