Logos Fellowship
The new Logos Fellowship program is a year-long accelerator program for conservative journalists, activists, and opinion leaders. Modeled on successful tech-industry accelerators, the Logos Fellowship will consist of a three-day retreat in the Palm Beach area in February 2024 and ongoing mentorship, amplification, and promotion. Fellows will bring a specific “culture war” project to the program, which our team will help nurture over the course of the year. The goal is to help move these independent projects from conception to execution, so that they begin to shape the discourse and change public policy. Some topics that we hope to address are critical race theory, gender ideology, higher education reform, crime and policing, and civil rights law.
Christopher Rufo, Senior Fellow & Contributing Editor, City Journal
2024 Logos Fellows
Christopher Brunet
Christopher Brunet, MFE, is a contributing editor at the American Conservative and writes an online newsletter at karlstack.substack.com. Before becoming a writer, he worked as an economist at Statistics Canada and at the University of Chicago, and he lectured at Stanford University on the topic of free speech and online anonymity. His writing has also appeared in City Journal, UnHerd, the Blaze, the Dossier, the Daily Caller, and the Post Millennial.
Jonathan Choe
Jonathan Choe is a journalist and senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth and Poverty, covering homelessness issues for its Fix Homelessness initiative. Prior to joining Discovery, Choe spent several years as one of the lead reporters at KOMO-TV, consistently the top-rated television station in Seattle. His in-depth stories on crime and the homeless crisis led to changes in public policy and measurable results. Choe has more than two decades of experience in television news—both behind the scenes and in front of the camera for ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and Tribune. He has been nominated for and honored with multiple industry awards, including an Emmy. Choe spent several years teaching classes on emerging media and entrepreneurship to underprivileged youth in inner-city Chicago. As an independent journalist, Choe also contributes regularly to the Post Millennial and Turning Point USA. He also makes regular appearances on Fox News and Newsmax. Choe is a New England native and Boston University journalism school graduate.
Caroline Downey
Caroline Downey is a reporter at the National Review. She is a visiting fellow with the Independent Women's Forum, a former Publius Fellow with the Claremont Institute, and editor-in-chief of The Conservateur, a digital fashion and lifestyle magazine for women. She regularly appears on Fox News, Fox Business, and Newsmax, and her work has been featured in the New York Post, Newsweek, and the Washington Examiner. As an intern, Caroline represented the Heritage Foundation in a 2019 televised debate against interns from the Cato Institute. Previously, she was a portfolio analyst at the Bank of New York Mellon. She holds a BA in economics and political science from Boston College.
Spencer Lindquist
Spencer Lindquist is a field reporter with the Daily Wire, where he's broken original stories on immigration, education, corporate discrimination, and the politicization of the federal bureaucracy. Spencer is a graduate of Pepperdine University.
Angela Morabito
Angela Morabito is the spokesperson for the Defense of Freedom Institute and a former U.S. Department of Education press secretary. She has been a recurring guest on Fox News, Fox Business, the Glenn Beck Program, and Newsmax to discuss education issues, including teachers’ unions, Title IX, school choice, and foreign influence on campus. Angela was a member of the Heritage Foundation's inaugural class of Communicating for Impact fellows in 2021 and began a visiting fellowship with the Independent Women's Forum in 2022. She was named to the Maverick PAC Future 40 in 2023. Angela graduated cum laude from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and earned an MA from Georgetown, where she studied politics, culture, media, and ethics.
Matthew R. Petrusek
Matthew R. Petrusek, Ph.D., is the senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and its professor of Catholic ethics. Matthew is also the host of the Word on Fire Show and Ten Questions with Matthew Petrusek. He has authored/edited several books, including Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture; Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity, The Search for a Meaningful Life; Ethics and Advocacy: Bridges and Boundaries; and Value and Vulnerability: An Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity. Petrusek lectures broadly in both English and Spanish on moral philosophy/theology, politics, social issues, and the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Julio Rosas
Julio Rosas is a field reporter for his Substack, MostlyPeaceful.live, and author of Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America (2022). From far-left riots to the border crisis to the war in Israel, Julio goes on the ground to cover stories that the mainstream media will not report accurately. Where there is chaos and mayhem, Julio is there.
Madeleine Rowley
Madeleine Rowley is a freelance reporter and journalist with previous bylines in Michael Shellenberger’s Public News and Bari Weiss’s the Free Press. She writes investigative pieces about government corruption, abuse of power, immigration, and religion. Rowley holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MA in journalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. She lives on the East Coast with her husband and young daughter.
Aaron Sibarium
Aaron Sibarium is a reporter at the Washington Free Beacon where he covers law, education, and institutional capture. He has broken stories on corporate race discrimination, the race-based allocation of Covid drugs, the American Academy of Pediatrics, Princeton University, Harvard University, and Yale Law School. His reporting played a pivotal role in the resignation of former Harvard president Claudine Gay. Aaron previously worked as an editor at the American Interest and earned a BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University.
Mike Wacker
Mike Wacker is a software engineer and technologist. He has worked at Microsoft and Google, where he caught YouTube red-handed manually intervening in search results for abortion. Mike was a fellow for the Lincoln Network’s 2020 Policy Hackers cohort and served as a TechCongress fellow in the office of Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL). He earned an MCS from Arizona State University and a BS from Cornell University.