Born and raised in Australia, Nick Adams immigrated to America in 2016, with the United States government recognizing his ‘extraordinary ability.’ Nick’s first challenge came at sixteen months. He was diagnosed with Stage IV Neuroblastoma (a rare form of childhood cancer), and given just a five percent chance of survival. He defied the odds, with a tenacity that would become a hallmark of his life. This early adversity indelibly shaped his life. As Nick wrote: “It taught me to hope. It taught me to dream. That anything is possible. That no hurdle is too high, no burden too great and no obstacle insurmountable.

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Alex Ayers  is Vice President of Public Policy with Schoening Strategies, a lobbying and political consulting firm in Washington, DC. Alex leads the policy team and represents several business groups and advocacy organizations on Capitol Hill including the Association of Mature American Citizens. With AMAC, Alex focuses on helping Congressional offices introduce legislation, add cosponsors and lobby Congressional leaders to bring AMAC supported legislation to the floor for votes. Alex has published papers and studies in various policy areas including taxes, energy, agriculture, and economics and has testified on tax policy. His research has been cited by organizations such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Tax Foundation

David Balat is the director of the Right on Healthcare initiative at the Foundation. He has broad experience across the healthcare spectrum with special expertise in healthcare finance. He is a former congressional candidate in Texas’ 2nd Congressional District and a seasoned hospital executive with more than 20 years of healthcare industry leadership and executive management experience.

Balat has earned the privilege of being invited to testify before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform in Washington, D.C., and before various House committees in the Texas state Legislature. He is a published author and op-ed columnist in Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Real Clear Politics, and other news outlets. He is also an active speaker and commentator on matters of health policy.

Balat often volunteers to help families navigate their bills and how to understand their benefits. He serves as a board member for a nonprofit focused on educating legislators and the community about important matters pertaining to healthcare freedom.

Balat is a first generation American and the first in his family to graduate from college. He received his B.S. from the University of Houston and joint master’s degrees in business administration and hospital administration from the University of Houston – Clear Lake.

Robert B. Charles served in the Reagan and Bush 41 White Houses, as Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, and counsel to the US House National Security subcommittee for five years; a former litigator, he taught law at Harvard University’s Extension School, recently authored “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and consults in Washington DC.

JIM CRAIG
Olympic Gold Medalist
Goalie, 1980 USA “Miracle on Ice” Hockey Team Owner, President & CEO of Gold Medal Strategies

Jim Craig is best known as the backbone of the 1980 Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Team, whose ‘Miracle’
win was voted by Sports Illustrated as the greatest moment in sports history of the 21ˢᵗ century.
Craig, who started every game in goal, was a leading figure in the team’s success. One of the
enduring images of the 1980 Games was of Craig, wrapped in an American flag, searching the stands
for his widowed father in order to share the gold-medal-winning victory.

Before the Olympics, Jim was an All-American goalie at Boston University, leading his team to a
NCAA national championship. After the ‘Miracle’ game, Jim went on to play professionally for three
NHL teams, where he sustained a career-ending injury while playing for the Minnesota North Stars.
He is enshrined in the Boston University Hall of Fame, the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall
of Fame, the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, and the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and is a
co-recipient of both the Lester Patrick award and the Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year”
award. He is also a graduate of Boston University and earned his doctorate in humane letters from
Mercy College.

Following Jim’s professional hockey career, he transitioned his success into the corporate world as
a motivational speaker, powerful salesman and corporate consultant. He has been inducted into the
Sales Halls of Fame for two different companies, having increased a sales territory from
$300,000 to $50 million in annual sales. Following this role, Jim moved on to become the Vice
President of a promotional marketing agency. Under his guidance, the agency increased annual dollar
sales by 80 percent and its number of clients by 30 percent in just two short years.

For more than 30 years, Jim has inspired, instructed and provided strategic and winning direction
to some of the most prestigious companies across the world, including Kellogg’s, Bayer, Deloitte,
Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and Disney, as the successful owner and president of
his company, Gold Medal Strategies. Jim has been selected three times as one of the top five
speakers on team building in the United States, and has evolved to not only deliver motivational
speeches, but host immersive corporate training programs that teach participants how to think
differently and believe in their possibilities. Jim is the co-author of the highly acclaimed
business book, Gold Medal Strategies: Business Lessons from America’s Miracle Team and recently
released his newest book and legacy piece, We Win! Lessons on Life, Business & Building Your Own
Miracle Team. His stories emphasize and inspire the idea that anything is possible when you
believe.

For more information, follow Jim on his social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Personal Instagram, GMS Instagram

Lynette Diamond Hardaway and Rochelle Silk Richardson are biological sisters from North Carolina and President Trump’s most loyal supporters. In 2015 Diamond and Silk started as Video Vloggers and became Internet Sensations and Influencers.

After switching their party to Republican, they started the Ditch and Switch now movement urging others to ditch the Democrat party and Switch their party to Republican to vote for Donald J. Trump

Diamond and Silk are political commentators, opinionators, authors of a Best Selling book called Uprising, and public speakers delivering powerful speeches at CPAC, Liberty University, and a host of other major organizations and institutions.

They host  Diamond and Silk Crystal Clear on Newsmax TV, and are the host of a weekly podcast called Diamond and Silk; The podcast Standing with the Silent Majority, as Conservative women, they voice their opinions about media bias and repetitive political tactics that Americans are tired of being subjected to. Diamond and Silk are not politically correct; they are politically direct.

Anthony R. Dolan is a graduate of Fairfield Preparatory School, and Yale University, where he majored in philosophy and history.     

Beginning with F. Clifton White Associates in the early 1970s, he has worked as a political consultant on many campaigns and held staff positions on eight presidential campaigns.

As a reporter for the Stamford Advocate, he won six journalism awards for his exposures of organized crime and public corruption including the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. His work in Stamford and exposure of mob influence reaching into the state capitol was recently written about in Roguetown, a book by undercover police officer Vito Collucci who dedicated the volume to him.

Mr. Dolan’s stories resulted in the resignation or dismissal of more than 15 local and state officials as well as multiple indictments of organized crime figures, corrupt police officers and others.  His series exposing Gambino family ties to government officials and the many personal threats of physical violence it led to were the subject of a 1981 Rolling Stone feature article and the 1983  development of a movie script at Paramount Studios. (Later the also the subject of a Hollywood Reporter column by legendary film authority Robert Osborne.) Two years later  the Connecticut State Supreme Court – in a  unanimous decision written by the Chief Justice that was seen as an affirmation of reporters’ First Amendment rights —  ruled against Connecticut’s State Senate Majority leader (who had been defeated for reelection due to Dolan’s stories about mob influence) and affirmed the disputed stories were not only protected from a libel action under Times-vs-Sullivan precedent but were also true.

Mr. Dolan was the only member of President’s Reagan’s senior staff to serve all eight years at the White House where he was chief speechwriter and Special Assistant and Deputy Assistant to President Reagan. In addition to supervising the speeches at four Reagan-Gorbachev summits, he worked with President Reagan on many foreign policy speeches including the “evil empire” speech in Orlando Fla., the  “asheap of history” speech to the British Parliament at Westminster Hall, London, and “Tear Down the   Wall” in Berlin.  The story of the latter speech is found in his Wall St. Journal article called “Four Little Words.”  Mr. Dolan also worked closely with President Reagan on a July 1981 Address to the Nation on tax-cuts that sparked a strong public reaction and overcame entrenched opposition to the legislation.  His speech drafts in the campaign of 1980 and through the early years of the administration emphasized Ronald Reagan’s desire to celebrate American heroes especially those in the US military. One national tradition, presidential phone calls on Christmas to members of the five services, grew out of Mr. Dolan’s initial suggestion.

In June of 1982, at the invitation of Attorney General William French Smith, Mr. Dolan made a presentation on organized crime and public corruption to the Justice Department senior staff and played a major role in developing the Reagan administration’s October 1982 plan for a crackdown on the mob that led to a quadrupling of prosecutions and disintegration of seveal mob families. In addition to a Loa Angeles Times story on his behind-the-scenes work, then FBI Director William Webster referred to him as “the guiding spirit” behind the plan. Along with famous undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone (“Donnie Brasco”) Mr. Dolan was one of two speakers to address the organizational dinner meeting of the President’s Commission on Organized Crime in 1984.
        In the field of foreign policy, he has served as a special adviser to the US. Delegation to UNESCO in Paris France (1984) and the UN Disarmament Conference in Geneva Switzerland (1988).

On the last day of the Reagan administration Mr Dolan received a handwritten note from President Reagan that said “Tony ….you were keeper of the flame.”

A friend of President George HW Bush, Mr. Dolan was an unofficial adviser during his term in office. In the administration of George W Bush, Mr. Dolan was at the State Department during the presidential transition and then was Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell until July 2001.  For the next six and a half years, he served as a Special Adviser to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  Mr. Dolan, who was in the Pentagon on 9\11, had a principal role in briefing the Secretary of Defense, Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs as well as Combatant Commanders before each news conference. A former US Army Specialist 4, Mr. Dolan was the recipient of the Department of Defense’s civilian award, The Medal for Public Service. He also wrote and broadcast for Our American Network a tribute to wounded and fallen war heroes (especially those he knew) called “They Will Be Remembered” .

He then served as Special Adviser on the presidential campaigns of Fred Thompson (2008), Newt Gingrich (2012) and Ted Cruz (2016).

Mr. Dolan has run his own communications strategy firm working with a wide array of major associations and corporations as well as political clients. His work producing TV spots and media campaigns for candidates and SuperPacs have drawn widespread commentary during the last ten years.  His writings have appeared in a variety of journals and newspapers from National Review and the Washington Monthly to the op-ed pages of the New York Times and Wall St. Journal.      

His writing career began in the late ‘60s when he began a close friendship with National Review editor William F. Buckley Jr, and for whom he was a pallbearer at his 2008 St Patrick’s Cathedral funeral. In the late 60s and early 70s, Mr. Dolan also wrote music and recorded an album as well as performed four nights a week at Finnegan’s Wake on New York’s Upper East Side.  

At 13, Ben Ferguson became the youngest radio talk show host in the country, and the youngest nationally syndicated host at 20. Ferguson published his first book, a political work, “It’s My America Too,” published by William Morris/Harper Collins.

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Lee S. Gross, M.D.
Founder, Epiphany Health Direct Primary Care
President, Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation
North Port, FL

Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Gross is a graduate of The Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He was elected chief resident of his family medicine residency program at University Hospitals of Cleveland.

After years in private practice in Florida, he and his colleagues had an “epiphany” about an affordable health care solution, free of insurance and government intrusion. Now, a Direct Primary Care revolution is sweeping across the nation, providing access to health care for those who have been neglected by the system for decades.

Dr. Gross is a pioneer in the Direct Primary Care delivery model, frequently speaking at national meetings, conducting media interviews about free-market health care innovations and writing articles for national publications. He is a health care consultant to physician practices, medical organizations, insurance groups, hospitals and private businesses. He is consulted by lawmakers and policy leaders on local, state and federal health policy initiatives, including formal testimony for the United States Senate and consultation with leadership at CMS, HHS, Labor, Treasury and The White House.

He serves as the president of the Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation, a national health policy think tank of practicing physicians committed to the establishment of an American health care economy which preserves the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship, promotes quality care, supports affordable access to care for all Americans and protects patient’s personal health care decisions.

D4PCF is the leading educator of DPC physicians. It has trained over 1,000 physicians in the Direct Primary Care delivery model through grant-supported national conferences since 2016.

Dr. Gross serves on the Board of Trustees of an HCA Hospital and as a Delegate to the Florida Medical Association. He is President of his county Medical Society. He is appointed to the FMA Council on Medical Economics and Practice Innovation. Dr. Gross is a recipient of HCA’s Frist Humanitarian award. He has received the Free Market Medical Association’s Beacon Award for his leadership in healthcare market reforms.

The most recognized male figure skating star in the world, Scott Hamilton has won 70 titles, awards and honors including an Emmy Award nomination, induction into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and a privileged member of the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

In 1984, Scott captured the attention of the world with his Olympic Gold medal performances in Saravejo and since has shared his love and enthusiasm for the sport as a analyst/commentator, performer, producer and best-selling author (Finish First: Winning Changes Everything, 2018; The Great Eight, 2009; Landing It, 1999). He further inspires others as a speaker, humanitarian, and as a cancer and pituitary brain tumor survivor.

After losing his mother to cancer, then becoming survivor himself, Scott turned activist, launching the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation (Cancer Alliance for Research, Education and Survivorship). He founded several education and survivorship programs including Chemocare.com and the 4th Angel Mentoring Program.  Events such as Sk8 to Elimin8 Cancer and An Evening with Scott Hamilton & Friends galas fund research into treatments that treat the cancer and spare the patient harm.

Scott recently launched Live Your Days – a call to being present and not let day after day pass, just going through the checklist of life. It is about putting down your phone to enjoy the people and moments that God has given you, because we don’t control the number of days we have on this earth, we only control what we do with them. The online platform includes a weekly podcast interview, 30-day life challenges with easy to implement tips and merchandise, with proceeds benefiting the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation.

He is also the founder of the Scott Hamilton Skating Academy at the Ford Ice Centers in Antioch, TN and Bellevue, TN, where he may frequently be found coaching Learn to Skate students and sharing his love of skating.

In what little free time remains, Scott can be found on the golf course and enjoys spending time with his wife Tracie and four children – at their home in Nashville, Tennessee.

Stephen­ Moore is an economics journalist, author, and columnist. .He co-founded and served as president of the Club for Growth from 1999 to 2004, and is a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board. He worked at the Heritage Foundation during the period from 1983 to 1987 and again since 2014. Steve advocates tax cuts and other supply-side policies and advised Herman Cain’s 2012 presidential campaign and Donald Trump‘s 2016 presidential campaign. Along with Larry Kudlow, he advised President Trump and his administration during the writing and passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

His columns appear in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Weekly Standard, Washington Examiner, and National Review. Currently, he is the chief economist for the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity, recently released “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States,” which explains why eliminating or lowering tax burdens at the state level leads to economic growth and wealth creation.

John H. Ramsey
Senior Fellow, Reason Foundation

John H. Ramsey has been a Senior Business Executive and a Management Consultant for over forty years. He is writing the book WE THE PEOPLE AND OUR MONEY. The subtitle is WHAT WE MUST DO TO FIX OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

Mr. Ramsey was a founding shareholder of a global management consulting firm organized and pledged to combine the best of independent local profit centers with the worldwide resources of a large multinational company. Mr. Ramsey served as the firm’s first Chairman and helped guide the organization’s growth to approximately 100 consultants in 34 offices in 21 countries worldwide, including U.S. offices in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Miami, New York, Newark, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. The firm continues today, and is active on six continents, thirty years after its founding.

From 2011–2015 Ramsey was an adjunct Management Consultant with two large Florida community foundations, providing consulting services to numerous nonprofit organizations in the greater Gulf Coast, Florida area. From July 2008 until September 2010 Mr. Ramsey was a consultant to, and part-time Chief Financial Officer of, a nonprofit scientific research institute in Sarasota.

From 1972-1983, and again from 1998-2000, Mr. Ramsey held various executive positions in finance, including Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a large California food manufacturing company; Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a diversified mid-western financial services company; Senior Vice President for Lending of a major Florida financial institution; Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of a multi-state mortgage corporation; and Director of a commercial bank. In these capacities, Mr. Ramsey was instrumental in developing and implementing strategic and operating plans, raising $60 million in the public and private capital markets, and acquiring or starting six companies.

From 1963-1972 Mr. Ramsey was an officer in the Air Force, where for three years he was a project manager in a large defense system acquisition. He also directed a major analysis of return on investment and progress payments for the Defense Department’s Industry Advisory Council. Mr. Ramsey was nominated for the rank of Major in 1971. Mr. Ramsey is also a decorated Vietnam Veteran. His decorations include The Air Force Commendation Medal and The Bronze Star.

John Ramsey earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Tufts University, where he was a Dean’s List student and a member of two hon­orary societies. He received a Masters in Business Administration with Distinction from Harvard Business School. Mr. Ramsey was selected for the Leadership Cleveland program in 1981 and was listed in Who’s Who in America for fifteen years. He is currently a member of The Leadership Sarasota Alumni.

Mr. Ramsey is married to Jo-Anne Sheldon and has three children, two stepchildren, four grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.

Palmer Schoening is part of our AMAC Action team in Washington DC and is Chairman of the Family Business Coalition which fights for lower taxes on family owned and operated businesses. The Family Business Coalition helped push Congress to double the amount of families protected by the death tax in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and has helped to repeal several state death taxes entirely. Palmer and his team help small business and advocacy organizations like AMAC Action understand and influence the DC policy making process. Palmer and his colleague Alex Ayers help advance AMAC Action’s priorities on Capitol hill, participate in key coalitions and conservative meetings, assist with media including articles and interviews with members of Congress, and help develop AMAC’s government affairs capabilities.

Heather Sellers, is the CEO, of BestSellers, LLC ([email protected]), a leading conservative political campaign consulting firm. Heather has over twenty years of marketing, advertising, and public relations experience encompassing all aspects of consulting, budgeting, media buying and planning, branding of a new name for a company, lobbying, and serving as a company spokesman. She was elected to an office which allows her to have a valuable perspective of inside elections and campaigns. In 2018 she represented 52 campaigns across the country, from U.S. Senate to Local City and County races; for the 2019 and 2020 election cycles, she currently works with over 20 Candidates. No race is too large or small for her to give them her complete and undivided attention. She has worked for Sinclair Broadcasting Group for over 8 years and owns her own Political Consulting Company, Best Sellers.

She attended Mary Baldwin in Staunton VA for 2 years, then transferred to the University of Mississippi where she graduated on the Dean’s List in 3 years. HOTTY TODDY! Senator Thad Cochran introduced her to her husband who she has been married to for 28 years. Rick Sellers, at the time they met, was the nominee for the Alabama U.S. Senate. They now live in Arlington with their son who just graduated high school. And their daughter attends Millsap’s in Jackson MS.