Leadership Institute

Leadership & Staff

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Brent Lowder Former Executive Director, California Republican Party

• California Director*

Nicole Neily President, Parents Defending Education

• Volunteer Faculty

Ron Nehring Director of International Training at The Leadership Institute; Former chair, California Republican Party

• Director, International Training

Steven Sutton Leadership Institute; Republican operative

• vice president of development

John Davis Leadership Institute

• Director of donor communications

Adam Guillette President, Accuracy in Media

• Volunteer faculty

Andrew Clark Koch operative; President, Generation Opportunity

• Volunteer faculty

Michael Palmer President of i360

• Volunteer faculty

Abigail Alger Director of Digital Communications for the Leadership Institute.

• Director of Digital Communications*

John Tate Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign aide

• Position

Owners

Morton C Blackwell President of the Leadership Institute

• Founder ('79→?)

Board Members

Thomas Allen Coburn Republican US Senator and Representative from Oklahoma

• Advisory Board

Mike Crapo US Senator from Idaho (1999-present); former US Representative (1993-1999)

• Advisory Board

Donors

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

• Donation/Grant · 250,000 USD ('15)

Donations

Moms for Liberty, Inc. Moms for Liberty is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. The organization's mission is to organize, educate and empower parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.

• STRATEGY SESSIONS TRACK SPONSOR · 50,000 USD

Members

Matthew Elliott Founder and former Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, Chief Executive of Vote Leave campaign

• Speaker (Mar 26 '13→Mar 30 '13)

Mike Pence Former Vice President of the United States; Governor of Indiana 2013-2016

• Member

Lila Rose Conservative Activist - When she was a UCLA freshman, she and fellow conservative activist James O’Keefe came up with the idea to infiltrate clinics.

• Member

Memberships

Council for National Policy Secretive right-wing umbrella group for U.S. Christian autocracy movement

• Member*

State Policy Network right-wing think tank network

• associate member

Services & Transactions

Moms for Liberty, Inc. Moms for Liberty is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. The organization's mission is to organize, educate and empower parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.

• ally · 50,000 USD*

Students

Karl Rove Chief strategist and top advisor to George W Bush

• Student (past)

Mitch McConnell US Senator from Kentucky, husband of former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao

• Student, Conservative Indoctrination (past)

Grover Norquist anti-tax activist and power broker

• Graduate, Conservative Indoctrination (past)

Mike Pence Former Vice President of the United States; Governor of Indiana 2013-2016

• Graduate, Conservative Indoctrination (past)

Charlie Kirk Founder and Executive Director of Turning Point USA

• Student*

Miscellaneous Relationships

Youth for Western Civilization Youth Organization for White Nationalists in the US

• project*