William Kristol (Chairman)
Editor-at-large of The Bulwark
Bill Kristol is the Founding Director of Defending Democracy Together, an educational and advocacy organization dedicated to defending America’s liberal democratic norms, principles, and institutions.
Bill Kristol was a founder of The Weekly Standard and is a regular guest on leading political commentary shows. Prior to his work at The Weekly Standard, Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, an organization that helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory.
From 1985 to 1993, Kristol served as Chief of Staff to Education Secretary William Bennett in the Reagan administration and as Chief of Staff to Vice President Dan Quayle in the George H. W. Bush administration. Before coming to Washington, Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.
Spencer Abraham P’19
Chairman and CEO of The Abraham Group
As America’s 10th Secretary of Energy, Secretary Abraham began his tenure in 2001 in the midst of a severe energy crisis that included the California blackouts, declining domestic energy supplies, and insufficient international energy trade opportunities. Under his leadership, the Department of Energy conducted a number of important short and long-term studies of world oil, gas, electricity, and other markets.
Diane L. McGimsey ’99
Partner of S&C
As member of S&C's Litigation Group, McGimsey has represented clients in a wide range of federal and state litigation matters at both the trial and appellate levels, with a particular focus on shareholder litigation and the defense of private class action securities and antitrust litigation.
Her practice also includes investigations by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as handling matters for clients as plaintiffs in significant commercial disputes.
(310) 712-6600
Melissa Muller P’18
Melissa Muller ’18. Melissa was a Fulbright scholar in Germany and then went on to Yale Law School. She’s an associate at Edleson in DC.
Vincent Phillip Muñoz ’93
Associate Professor of Religion & Public Life at University of Notre Dame
Vincent Phillip Muñoz is the Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. He is also the Founding Director of Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government.
His scholarship has been cited numerous times in church-state Supreme Court opinions, most recently by Justice Alito in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021) and by both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Thomas in Espinoza v. Montana (2020).
An award-winning teacher and a popular lecturer, Professor Muñoz has spoken at nearly 100 colleges and universities in the past several years.
(574) 631-0489
Julie Oglivie ’99
Founder & President of Artemis Environmental Services, Inc.
As a California-licensed attorney with a Master’s in Ecology and knack for finance, she is uniquely suited to aid clients on a wide range of matters. Ms. Ogilvie has more than 15 years of experience supporting a diverse array of clients and industries, including energy, utilities, transportation, water, wastewater, private development, government and the military.
Ms. Ogilvie has supported projects through various stages of planning, permitting, implementation, and post-implementation, allowing her to understand the direct implications of decisions made in the planning stage, or of terms negotiated in mitigation measures and permit conditions.
Her areas of focus include environmental planning, waters and wetlands permitting, endangered species consultations, the unique-energy permitting process, environmental compliance tracking and reporting, and project management of multi-million dollar projects with multi-disciplinary teams.
Jacob Weisberg P’24
Jacob Weisberg P ’24. Jacob is a longstanding political journalist and current CEO of Pushkin Industries.
Jonathan Zimmerman P’18
Professor of Education at Penn Graduate School of Education
Jonathan Zimmerman is one of the foremost education historians working today. His work examines how education practices and policies have developed over time, and the myths that often cloud our understanding of teaching and learning. He has a particular interest in how political and social movements come to shape education.
A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school teacher, Zimmerman has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic.
(215) 898-5672