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</font></div><div><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A popular national <strong>motivational speaker</strong>, author, blogger, and regular guest on Fox News, CNBC and radio shows, Kate Obenshain is fearless champion of expanded liberty. She inspires audiences with her passionate, experienced insights, encouraging them to dig deep to become more engaged while always staying true to their integrity and principles, even in a world that demands they abandon them.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Keller Williams International CEO and current Vice Chairman of the Board, Mo Anderson, said, "Kate has a gift of eloquently delivering a message that is seamlessly woven with heartfelt passion and an extraordinary level of knowledge, and the end result is truly captivating. She literally holds the audience in the palm of her hand."</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kate is the author of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a target="blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Divider---Chief-Fraud-Hope-Change/dp/1621570118/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345574714&sr=1-1&keywords=divider+in+chief" style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Divider in Chief: The Fraud of Hope and Change</b></a> (Regnery, 2012)—</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a book that has garnered national praise for its searing, systematic indictment of the Obama administration’s divisive, destructive tactics.<b> Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, David Limbaugh, Congressman Allen West </b>and other widely respected conservatives have lauded the book.</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She speaks regularly all across the country--to business groups and law firm retreats; for civic, political and religious groups; conferences and conventions, women’s retreats, on college campuses—you name it, she’s done it—for over 20 years, inspiring, enlightening and entertaining audiences on topics ranging from</font></p><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; line-height: 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">effective leadership skills,</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">finding the courage and confidence to achieve real success,</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">overcoming challenges for women in leadership,</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">reclaiming our legacy of freedom.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">and public policy topics such as government over regulation and its impact on businesses,</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">economic policy,</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">national security,</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">education (Common Core, choice, charters),</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">faith,</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">parenting,</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>political correctness on campus,</b> and</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the changing role of women in politics and the work place. </font></li></ul><h1 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.2em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 3px; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND</font></h1><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">From 2008 to 2012, Kate championed her conservative convictions as vice president of <a target="blank" href="http://www.yaf.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">Young America’s Foundation</a>, a group that inspires emerging young leaders at the <a target="blank" href="http://www.yaf.org/landingpagetemplate.aspx?id=161" style="text-decoration: none;">Reagan Ranch, Reagan Ranch Center,</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and on college campuses across the country. </span></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Encouraging young people and women to become philosophically knowledgeable and active in public policy issues is a driving passion for Kate. In 2003, she founded the <a target="blank" href="http://jbi.rpv.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">Jennifer Byler Institute</a>, a leadership training program for women in Virginia.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kate garnered national attention as the first woman chairman of the Virginia GOP. Serving from 2003 to 2006, she led the charge against tax increases and the expanding role of government.</b> During her tenure as chairman, she eliminated the Party’s massive debt by implementing a business mentality and aggressive fundraising operation. She rebuilt the grassroots operation and restored strong conservative philosophical underpinnings as well as the credibility of the Party that had faced significant challenges before her term. While she was chair, the <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</em> identified her as a rising star in national politics.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>She served as Virginia Senator George Allen's chief of staff </b>and as his <b>chief education and health policy adviser</b> while he was governor. From 1995 to 2000, she advanced budgetary reform and programmatic accountability as an appointee of Governors Allen and Gilmore on the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Along with Ann Coulter, Laura Schlessinger, Phyllis Schlafly and Jeane Kirkpatrick, Kate's work is featured in the book, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Conservative-Boothe-Policy-Institute/dp/0972139907/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356555957&sr=8-1&keywords=great+american+conservative+women" style="text-decoration: none;"><em>Great American Conservative Women</em>.</a> Of this book, Rush Limbaugh, said, “It's past due that someone put together a collection of ideas and philosophies from conservative women in print.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kate has been executive producer for two movies, both for Young America's Foundation. The first,<a href="http://www.yaf.org/dvd/still_point_in_a_turning_world.html" style="text-decoration: none;"> Still Point in a Turning World</a>, was developed in honor of President Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday. <a href="http://www.yaf.org/theconservativesmovie.html" style="text-decoration: none;">The Conservatives,</a> featuring prominent conservatives such as Michelle Malkin, Mark Levin and Jonah Goldberg, provides an introduction to conservatism to young adults, and a refresher for those who need a few reminders as to why conservatism works.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kate has also been the editor of a local magazine, fulfilled her dream of working in a bookstore, served on numerous campaigns, founded a non-profit organization that helped widows in times of distress, and sold Eskimo pies on the corner of 6th and Main Streets in Richmond, Virginia as a summer job growing up. </font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Currently, in addition to her speaking, writing and media work, Kate advises political candidates as well as businesses and organizations on policy development, messaging and media.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She serves on the Board of Directors for the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.cblpi.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"> Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute </a>and on the Advisory Board for the <a href="http://www.steamboatinstitute.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">Steamboat Institute</a>. </span></font></p><h1 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.2em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 3px; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HONORS</font></h1><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2005, Kate received Young America’s Foundation’s prestigious Torch of Freedom Award. She has also served on Young America's Foundation's board of directors.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kate has received the <a href="http://www.cblpi.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute</a>’s Conservative Leadership Award and has been featured in six of the Institute’s popular annual calendars. </font></p><h1 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.2em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 3px; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EDUCATION</font></h1><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kate attended the University of Virginia, graduating with a BA in English. She distinguished herself early as a student leader at the University of Virginia, where she was <b>editor of the campus conservative newspaper, the <em>Virginia Advocate</em>.</b> She organized one of the year’s best-attended campus events—a state-wide rally in support of America’s troops—that refuted vocal, anti-war leftists purporting to represent all students.</font></p><h1 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.2em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 3px; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MEDIA EXPERIENCE</font></h1><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Currently, Kate is a regular on The O'Reilly Factor, appearing weekly. She has appeared on numerous cable news shows, including, Hannity,
Fox and Friends, Bulls and Bears, Your World with Neil Cavuto, Hard Ball and Larry Kudlow’s The Call. She’s been on hundreds of radio shows, including The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Dennis Miller Show, The Dennis Praeger Show, The Michael Medved Show, NPR, and is a regular on The Mark Larson Show. She has guest hosted for The Andrea Tantaros Show and The G. Gordon Liddy Show. Her writings have been featured in, among others, New York Post, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Human Events, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">Breitbart.com</a> and Richmond Times Dispatch.</font></p><h1 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.2em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 3px; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PERSONAL</font></h1><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kate is a Virginia native. She lives in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia—God’s country—with her four children. In February of 2015 she started <a href="http://www.kateohomes.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">KateOHomes.com</a> and began pursuing a lifelong dream in real estate. </font></p><p style="line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kate's brother, Mark Obenshain, currently serves in the Virginia State Senate. Her father, Richard, was co-chairman of the RNC and nominee for the United States Senate in 1978 before his tragic death in a plane crash. Her mother, Helen, who has been described as a "<a href="http://www.dailyprogress.com/starexponent/news/local_news/expanding-personal-freedom/article_5c3fb542-7d33-11e2-aad9-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm" style="text-decoration: none;">political political powerhouse in her own right</a>," served as Virginia’s Republican National Committeewoman.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Board Members
Kellyanne Conway</b>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kellyanne Conway</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President of The Polling Co, Inc.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Frank Donatelli</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Frank Donatelli</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Secretary-Treasurer of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michelle Easton</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michelle Easton</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Clare Luce</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Clare Luce</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ursula Meese</b>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ursula Meese</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Kate Obenshain</b>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kate Obenshain</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former Virginia GOP Chairman and a Fox News Commentator</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Darla Partridge</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Darla Partridge</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Marji Ross</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Marji Ross
President of Regnery Publishing</b>
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</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Editor’s note: We at HUMAN EVENTS</b> are pleased to bring you this week a series of profiles from the<b> Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute</b>. These are profiles of influential and prominent conservative women who have made a tremendous impact for the better on this great country.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the 1980s, too many conservative groups looked like all-male organizations. Although the conservative movement was once stereotyped as a “group of little old ladies in tennis shoes,” the left exploited an opportunity by nominating an obscure woman, Geraldine Ferraro, for Vice-President and by clamoring for “women’s studies programs” in our schools.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>One high-level Reagan Administration official, Michelle Easton</b>, was confident conservative women could play a more crucial, perhaps decisive, role in public policy. She also believed that most American women were inherently conservative.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While she completed her years of service in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations, Easton decided to launch a conservative women’s group—the Clare Boothe Luce Public Policy Institute—that would balance the ideological scales.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conservatives, including Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Nikki Haley, Condoleezza Rice, Marsha Blackburn, and Kristi Noem, personify the modern day conservative movement that Michelle Easton championed at the Luce Institute. The Institute eschewed taxpayer subsidies and quick gimmicks to get press. Instead the Easton-led group highlighted a new core of national leaders through Washington policy luncheons, campus lectures, seminars and even its famous annual calendar—“Great American Conservative Women”—featuring the country’s leading conservative women.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Easton also recruited top flight business executives Marji Ross, Kellyanne Conway</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and Barb Kenney; veteran Washington hands Ursula Meese, </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Kate Obenshain,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and Frank Donatelli; and beyond-the-beltway leaders Darla Partridge and Clare Luce to serve on the Clare Boothe Luce Board of Directors. </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Easton enlisted help from other top conservatives, including Becky Norton Dunlop</span>, Bridget Wagner, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Cleta Mitchell, Star Parker</span>, S.E. Cupp and Kathryn Lopez, to create a reputation of hosting solid, conservative events.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Recently, David Horowitz honored Michelle Easton with the Freedom Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her public policy work. In addition to her accomplishments with the Luce Institute, Easton is an attorney, and mother of three boys, was the principal caregiver for her ailing parents and serves on several boards of other conservative organizations. Easton also served as the president of the Virginia Board of Education, where she authored and championed Gov. Allen’s acclaimed “Standards of Learning (SOLs).” Easton’s career changed the face of the conservative movement.</div></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Starring Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Dr. Walter Williams, Monica Crowley Ph.D., Jonah Goldberg, Stephen Moore, and Peter Schweizer</font></span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">America stands at a precipice: broken government, broken trust, broken dreams. We, as a nation, have a clear choice between two starkly difference philosophies to determine our future. Will we continue on the path of socialism, which insists on a dependent citizenry for its power, or will we seek to return to our roots and love of freedom where "government that governs least, governs best"?</span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Young America's Foundation's latest film,<em> The Conservatives</em>, is a film that makes a powerful argument for freedom - and the basic American concept of "Live Free or Die."</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From director Stephen K. Bannon, who brought you<em> Generation Zero, In the Face of Evil</em>, and <em>Still Point in a Turning World: Ronald Reagan and His Ranch, The Conservatives</em> will leave you inspired, energized, and more determined than ever to bring our country back to its glory and the promise of the Founding Fathers. This is the perfect film to recruit young people and expose open-minded students to conservative principles.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="verdana" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Young America’s Foundation is excited to announce the Firing Up Freedom Tour, a tremendous opportunity for Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapters to kick-start their Fall 2014 push to promote the ideas of individual freedom and limited government!</font></p><p trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" verdana="verdana" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The tour will feature Kate Obenshain, author of “Divider-in-Chief: The Fraud of Hope and Change” and an alumna of Young America’s Foundation, who will visit college and university YAF chapters early in the fall semester to deliver a lecture that will inspire students to become bold activists. Kate is a motivational speaker who has addressed students on topics such as education, free speech, and political correctness. She will also promote on social media throughout the academic year the YAF chapters’ activism so that they can garner additional publicity for their achievements.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div>