David is the President and CEO of the Bill of Rights Institute, one of the nation's leading civic-education organizations, reaching millions of students and teachers annually.

A recognized scholar of American political thought, he previously served as founding director of the Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship at Hillsdale College.

He is the author of Divided Over the Declaration: How an Enduring Debate Sustains the Vision of America and has led several America 250 initiatives. 

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Larry O'Connor is a nationally recognized radio host and journalist who hosts O'Connor & Company right here on WMAL and has recently expanded the show nationally on the Salem Radio Network and Salem News Channel.

He also serves as an editor at Townhall Media and hosts the daily video podcast LARRY. A trusted voice in political media, he's a frequent television commentator on outlets including Fox News, Newsmax, and MSNBC. 

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Janine Turner is an actress, author, speaker, and founder of Constituting America, a nonprofit dedicated to educating Americans about the U.S. Constitution and inspiring civic engagement among the nation's youth.

She is widely known for her Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated role as Maggie O'Connell in Northern Exposure, along with roles in Cliffhanger and Steel Magnolias.

Inspired by her appointment to President Bush's Council for Service and Civic Participation, Janine launched Constituting America, which she co-chairs with Cathy Gillespie. She now uses her Hollywood experience to bring the Constitution to life for students through film, music, and storytelling.

A native Texan and a great advocate for educating future generations, Janine continues to speak nationwide on the Constitution, civic duty, and preserving America's founding principles.

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Jennifer Kaye is a nationally recognized nonprofit executive and philanthropic strategist with over 30 years of experience helping national nonprofits, foundations, and military organizations secure transformational gifts and build influential partnerships.

She excels at cultivating relationships with philanthropists, corporate leaders, and military and government officials, with deep expertise in capital campaigns, major gifts, and executive strategy. Her background spans organizational development, public affairs, and diplomatic engagement across the nonprofit, corporate, government, and military sectors.

As the mother of a West Point graduate and a Naval Academy Midshipman, she brings a personal commitment to her work with veteran and military-focused organizations. 

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Rabbi Andrew Shaw is a UK-based rabbi and CEO of Mizrachi UK, and Founder & CEO of 250 Days for 250 Years alongside co-founder Daniel Shakhani. The project is a national initiative celebrating America's Semiquincentennial — a 250-day journey through American history, offering one day of content for every year since 1776 through daily videos, essays, state spotlights, a nationwide "Treasure Hunt," and a three-volume book series. Andrew previously founded Tribe, the United Synagogue's youth division, and created the 60 and 70 Days Holocaust memorial projects, reaching hundreds of thousands worldwide.

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Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is the Senior Director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he works to advance U.S. security and counter cyber threats from adversaries like Russia. He also directs CSC 2.0, continuing the work of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission, which he previously led as Executive Director. Mark completed 32 years as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a Rear Admiral in 2017. A frequent traveler to Ukraine, he draws on firsthand visits to inform his analysis of Russian cyberattacks and battlefield innovation. He is also co-author of Axis of Aggressors: Countering the Cooperation of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. 

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Mike Stevens serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Navy League of the United States, a role he took on in January 2019 after a 33-year career in the U.S. Navy that culminated in his service as the 13th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy from 2012 to 2016, the senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations. His naval career began in 1983 at the Aviation Structural Mechanic Apprentice School in Millington, Tennessee, and spanned a wide range of technical and leadership roles, including Helicopter Crew Chief, Navy Recruiter, Officer Candidate School Instructor, and Command Master Chief assignments at Helicopter Sea Combat Wing Atlantic, U.S. 2nd Fleet, and U.S. Fleet Forces Command. After retiring from active duty in September 2016, he served as Chief Operations Officer and later CEO of Viqtory, a military-focused marketing company supporting veterans' employment, before joining the Navy League. He has also contributed to the National Academy of Sciences as Vice Chair of the Naval Studies Board, served on the board of the Association of the United States Navy, and acted as a guest lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. Stevens holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Excelsior University and has completed programs including Harvard's Kennedy School "Leadership in Crisis" course and a Six Sigma Black Belt certification, and he is a recipient of the Peter Tomich Award for exceptional military excellence.

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Darley Newman is an award-winning host, producer, and travel expert Forbes has credited with building a "PBS media empire." As the creator and host of Travels with Darley, Equitrekking, and Look Up with Darley, she's taken audiences everywhere from horseback across Botswana to the world's highest commercial bungee jump in Macao, all in service of a good story. Her new book, Revolutionary Road Trip: Hidden Stories from America's Founding Journey, takes readers on a journey through Revolutionary War sites across the original thirteen colonies — from famous battlefields to the obscure taverns and forgotten heroes history books tend to skip. 

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David Randall is Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars (NAS), where he has written extensively on higher education policy and academic integrity. He earned a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University, an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia University, a master's degree in library science from the Palmer School at Long Island University, and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. Before joining NAS, he was the sole librarian at the John McEnroe Library at New York Studio School. At NAS, he has co-authored The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science: Causes, Consequences, and the Road to Reform (2018), and has written reports on civics education, social justice education, college common readings, and the College Board's Advanced Placement European History examination, including Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics (2017) and Beach Books, a multi-year study of college common readings. His academic scholarship includes The Concept of Conversation: From Cicero's Sermo to the Grand Siècle's Conversation (2018) and The Conversational Enlightenment: The Reconception of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Thought (2019). He has also written on the irreproducibility crisis in science for The Wall Street Journal and The Hill, and was a member of the Arizona Department of Education's first Steering Committee for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, the nation's first education savings account program.

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Matthew Gibson is the Executive Director of Virginia Humanities, a role he was appointed to in 2017, where he has led the organization's branding, visioning, and strategic planning efforts. He got his start in the digital and public humanities while pursuing his MA and PhD in English and American Studies at the University of Virginia, and in 1998 became assistant, and later associate, director of the University's Electronic Text Center. In 2005, he joined Virginia Humanities (then known as the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) to create and build Encyclopedia Virginia, and between 2008 and 2013 helped build a $2.5 million endowment to secure the editor's position and the project's future. As director of digital initiatives beginning in 2008, he served as principal investigator and director for three NEH grants and helped secure an organization-wide award from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a two-year project engaging local communities on racism and bias in Virginia's historical narratives. In 2021, he led a fundraising and planning effort to relocate Virginia Humanities' offices and build the state's first public humanities center. He is an ex-officio member of the Virginia Association of Museums board, serves on Virginia's Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission and Virginia's African American Cultural Resources Task Force, and is a member of the Federation of State Humanities Councils' Board of Directors, where he chairs the legislative committee.

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