Founder
Robert P. George – Dr. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. One of America’s foremost scholars in the fields of constitutional law, ethics, and political philosophy, he has won numerous awards for his academic and civic work, including the Presidential Citizens Medal. He has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. He is the author or editor of many books, including Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality and The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Morality, and Religion in Crisis, and co-author of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life.
Views expressed by the American Principles Project and/or on this website are not necessarily those of Professor George.
Chairman of the Board
Sean Fieler – Mr. Fieler graduated from Williams College in 1995 with a degree in Political Economy and was the 1994 recipient of the Branson Memorial Scholarship. He is the president of the Williams Catholic Network and a board member of the Witherspoon Institute, Institute for American Values, and the Dominican Foundation.
Board of Directors
Ellen Barosse – Founder and CEO of Synchrogenix Information Strategies, Ellen Barosse is highly respected for her charitable endeavors as well as for her impressive business acumen.
Luis E. Tellez – President and Founder of The Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Tellez has been active in numerous projects to promote education in Latin America, Africa and the United States.
Maggie Gallagher – Mrs. Gallagher is the President of the National Organization for Marriage, and the President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy. She is a nationally syndicated columnist and the author of three books on marriage. She appears frequently on major TV and radio and is frequently asked to lecture at colleges, universities and law schools. Maggie is a graduate of Yale (class of ’82).
Myers Mermel – Biography Forthcoming
President
Frank Cannon – Mr. Cannon is a principal of Capital City Partners, the noted Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm, Mr. Cannon is a veteran of numerous presidential and congressional campaigns. He has also directed several successful political action committees and redefined the use of grassroots coalitions in issue development.
Executive Director
Andresen Blom – Mr. Blom is a veteran of numerous political and grassroots efforts, from the creation of a national coalition to stop human trafficking to advising on several election campaigns. Instrumental in defeating same-sex marriage in Hawaii, Mr. Blom has worked tirelessly for a wide spectrum of conservative issues, from pro-life initiatives to the defeat of racially separatist legislation.
Policy Director
Jeffrey Bell – Mr. Bell served as an issues adviser in Ronald Reagan’s 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns and was the Republican Party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 1978, in which he was one of the first candidates in the country to build a bid for major office around what became the Reagan tax cuts.
Senior Economic Advisor
Ralph Benko – Mr. Benko testified before the U.S. Gold Commission and writes frequently about the gold standard, including its role in constitutional history. He is a principal in Capital City Partners, a Washington public affairs firm.
Executive Director – Preserve Innocence
Emmet McGroarty – biography forthcoming.
Project Director – Gold Standard 2012
Rich Danker – Mr. Danker is a graduate of the Pepperdine School of Public Policy and has worked in business-government relations and on economic policy.
President – Latino Partnership for Conservative Prinicples
Charlie Reid – Mr. Reid is a graduate of Brown University and Villanova Law School. In addition to his active involvement in the conservative movement, he is also a practicing attorney in the Philadelphia area.
Executive Director – Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles
Alfonso Aguilar – Mr. Aguilar is the former Chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship under President George W. Bush. Before joining the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2003, he served in numerous high-level government positions in the Bush Administration and the government of Puerto Rico. Mr. Aguilar has a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from the University of Puerto Rico. He writes a bi-monthly Op-Ed column for the daily La Opinion of Los Angeles, CA and frequently appears as a guest policy analyst in many radio and TV shows across the country.
