Chris Bolt
Class of 2024
Chris is Pastor for Theology and Apologetics at Village Church in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to that, he was a pastor and professor for ten years in Alabama and Tennessee. He is a husband and father of four. Chris double majored in Philosophy and Religion at Lynchburg College, received his M.Div. in Christian Ministry from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and holds the Ph.D. in Philosophy with minors in Systematic Theology and World Religions from Southern as well. He is the author of The World in His Hands: A Christian Account of Scientific Law and its Antithetical Competitors, and has written for American Reformer, Christ Over All, and Founders Ministries.
Robert Hasler
Class of 2024
Robert is an Assistant Pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church in Burke, Virginia. Prior to that, he worked for Ministry to State, a discipleship ministry of the PCA on Capitol Hill. He is a graduate of Hillsdale College and received his M.Div from Covenant Theological Seminary. He lives in northern Virginia with his wife and three boys.
Michael Keck
Class of 2024
Michael is the founder and CEO of Keck Family Developments (KFD) – a platform purposed to acquire and steward strategically aligned businesses. Prior to founding KFD, Michael worked as an investment banker focused on lower middle market M&A advisory. Michael was a gubernatorial appointee to the Board of Directors of The Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority and Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation where he finished his term serving as Chairman of the Board.
Michael received his undergraduate degree in business management from Western Kentucky University, an MSc in Finance and Economic Policy from the University of London, an M.A. in Christian Apologetics from Liberty University, and most recently an MBA from Duke University. Michael is currently a Ph.D. student in Management at ESCP Europe where his research focuses on normative business ethics.
Michael is husband to Brooke and father to Everleigh. The Kecks reside in Somerset, KY situated at the juncture of the Highland Rim and Appalachia near the shores of Lake Cumberland.
Micah Meadowcroft
Class of 2024
Micah is research director of the Center for Renewing America. Before joining CRA, he was the online editor of the American Conservative. He served as White House liaison at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Trump administration, and assisted in speechwriting there. He holds an M.A. in social science from the University of Chicago, where he wrote on political theory. His B.A. is in history from Hillsdale College, where he also minored in journalism. He and his wife and newborn daughter live in Virginia.
Jack McKinnon
Class of 2024
Jack is a Stanford graduate student studying Philosophy and Classics. In addition to his academic pursuits, he serves as the president of Veritas@Stanford and chairman of a parliamentary debate society. His academic focus on the metaphysics of late antiquity and their import into patristic theology demonstrates his deep intellectual curiosity. His current project is investigating the philosophical transition from Aristotelian physics to celestial mechanics with Kepler. In his spare time, Jack enjoys playing golf, powerlifting, and making additions to his 11th-century suit of armor.
Nick Solheim
Class of 2024
Nick serves as the Chief Operations Officer of American Moment, co-host of Moment of Truth, and Chief Financial Officer of the Edmund Burke Foundation. Nick has been published in The Daily Caller, Fox News, The American Conservative, The National Interest, American Reformer, and many other outlets, and cited in POLITICO, POLITICO Magazine, Fox News, The National Interest, and elsewhere. He has completed fellowships with the Conservative Partnership Institute and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and serves as an advisor to allied conservative organizations on technology and operations.
Nick currently resides in West Virginia with his wife Evie and two children, and is an avid explorer, functional fitness enjoyer, and book enthusiast.
Logan Zeppieri
Class of 2024
Logan is the educational programs assistant and tech associate at the Claremont Institute, while also the co-founder and secretary at the Kirkwood Center for theology and ethics. When he’s not hobbling together his eclectic skills to rebuild the American regime or helping make church great again, he can be found driving his favorite japanese car along the california coast or rereading his favorite books by G.K. Chesterton.
Ben R. Crenshaw
Class of 2023
Ben R. Crenshaw (Ph.D. candidate, Hillsdale College) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi where he specializes in American politics and Western political philosophy. He has contributed to works on Christian discipleship and biblical worship, Churchill studies, and political theology. His popular writing has appeared in The Public Discourse, The Federalist, The American Mind, and American Reformer. He lives with his wife and son in northern Mississippi. Ben is also a visiting fellow of American Reformer.
J. Chase Davis
Class of 2023
Chase Davis is the Lead Pastor of Ministry of The Well Church in Boulder, CO. A two-time graduate of Denver Seminary (M.Div., Th.M.), Chase is also a Ph.D. candidate at the Free University Amsterdam studying historical theology. The particular area of interest for his studies is Thomas Hooker and his theological anthropology. He is the author of Trinitarian Formation: A Theology of Discipleship in Light of the Father, Son, and Spirit and hosts the Full Proof Theology podcast.
Adam Kazmierski
Class of 2023
Adam is a business owner in media production with focuses in politics and education. His work has been featured by corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Costco, and others. He has been published on Tucker Carlson Tonight, The Daily Wire, The Blaze, Fox News, among other media publications. He holds an MA in Christian Apologetics from Talbot School of Theology, studying philosophy and theology, and a BS in Business Marketing from Biola University.
Andy Naselli
Class of 2023
Andy Naselli is professor of systematic theology and New Testament for Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis and one of the pastors of The North Church. He has authored or edited over twenty-five books and about one hundred articles. He and his wife, Jenni, have been married since 2004, and God has blessed them with four daughters.
Gordon Dakota Arnold
Class of 2022
Gordon Dakota Arnold is native of High Point, North Carolina and received his B.A. in Government with a minor in History from Regent University in 2017. After spending a semester as a Fellow at the John Jay Institute, he matriculated into Hillsdale College’s Ph.D. program where he studies Political Theory and American Government. His research interests include Reformed political philosophy, American Puritanism, the American Progressive Movement, and Constitutional Conservatism. He is writing his doctoral dissertation on “The Constitutional Nationalism of Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.” and has also published essays on Calvin Coolidge, James Madison, Jonathan Edwards, Augustine, Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and other great thinkers in the Western tradition of political philosophy. He is set to begin a career as a Professor of Politics at Colorado Christian University this Fall, where he will be teaching classes focusing on American Government, American Political Thought, and American Political History. He is building a career as a teacher in Christian higher education because he seeks to inspire students with the same passion for truth and understanding that his own teachers helped to instill in him.
Matthew Moody
Class of 2022
Matthew Moody serves 80 plus people as a Production Technical Support Specialist at BJU Press Digital. While growing up in northern California, his mother homeschooled him, and thanks to graduating high school early, Matthew attended Bible School in Lancashire, England and Estes Park, Colorado. In May 2022 he graduated from Grove City College in Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems. During his time with the Cotton Mather Fellowship, Matthew conducted research for the American Reformer and participated in discussions based off of assigned weekly readings. He now lives in South Carolina and enjoys spending time with family, finding alternative solutions to Big Tech, and bike riding.
Jackson Waters
Class of 2022
Jackson Waters grew up as the oldest of five in a homeschool family in Alexandria, Virginia. He graduated Union University in 2021, studying institutional decline and resurgence across several Protestant denominations. While a student, he also founded the Union Bull Moose Society, dedicated to teaching his peers and strengthening his university in a post-Christian world on issues of human sexuality and big tech. Since graduating, he has maintained his interest in strengthening and reforming Christian institutions, working with American Reformer on campaigns. He serves as Youth Director at his church while studying for Holy Orders at Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington D.C.
Christian Winter
Class of 2022
Christian Winter graduated from Union University in 2016 with a BA in Philosophy and from Hillsdale College in 2024 with a PhD in Politics. He wrote a dissertation on Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity. He teaches Upper School Humanities at Hillsdale Academy and enjoys writing at the intersection of philosophy, politics, culture, and theology. He has been published at Ad Fontes, The American Conservative, American Reformer, The Federalist, and Providence Magazine. He and his family live in Michigan and attend College Baptist Church.
William Wolfe
Class of 2022
A 10-year veteran of the conservative political movement, William Wolfe served as a Senior Official in the Trump Administration, both as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon and a Director of Legislative Affairs at the Department of State. Prior to his service in the Administration, William worked for Heritage Action for America, and as a Congressional Staffer for three different Members of Congress, including the former Rep. Dave Brat. He has a B.A. in History from Covenant College, and a Masters of Divinity at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
