Alyssa Burleson

Administrative Director at United States Senate

Alyssa Burleson is the Administrative Director with Senator Lummis's office. Before that, Alyssa was an office manager and legislative correspondent in the U.S. Senate. She also recently earned her Master's Degree in Publi...

Jeyben Castro

Jeyben Castro serves as Deputy Director for the House Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the U.S. House of Representatives. Created by law during the 116th Congress, the office works to develop and promote best practices...

Jim DeMint

Former U.S. Senator (R-S.C.)

Jim DeMint has fought tirelessly for freedom, prosperity, and traditional American values against the Washington swamp for over two decades. Today, he leads and trains a new generation of conservative warriors as Chairman ...

Kirsten Holmberg

Deputy Director of Political & Fundraising Training

Kirsten Holmberg is the Director of Political & Fundraising training at the Leadership Institute. She is responsible for several of LI's DC-based trainings and workshops, including the Campaign Management School, the F...

Ross Hougham

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Matthew Hurtt

Director of Graduate Programs

Matthew Hurtt is the Director of Graduate Relations at the Leadership Institute. He is also an internationally-recognized fundraiser, organizer, writer, and public speaker.

For nearly six years, Hurtt worked at Amer...

Cari Lancaster

Cari joined MRC as their inaugural Intern Coordinator in 2021. Her primary responsibilities concern recruiting and placing interns, scheduling intern workshops and events, and assisting the External Affairs department. She...

Alysia Martin

Intern Coordinator, The Leadership Institute

Aly Martin currently serves as the Leadership Institute Intern Coordinator. Aly first joined LI in April of 2020 as a development operations officer where she would open and process all of the incoming donations by the ove...

Leah Nalepa

Manager of Professional Development, Hillsdale College

Leah graduated from Hillsdale in 2015 and is the manager of professional development and alumni at Hillsdale College's Washington D.C. campus.

Prior to her role at Hillsdale College, she worked in sales and account ...

Caleb Pascoe

Career Services Coordinator, The Leadership Institute

Caleb Pascoe is the Career Services Coordinator at the Leadership Institute. In this role, he helps to train fellow conservatives on how to grow their professional skills and be most effective in the conservative movement....

Caleb Seals

Caleb Seals serves as the Director of Student Interns at Family Research Council. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing Management from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. He previously...