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Tuesday, we went to the eighth annual Buckley Awards Ceremony at the Capitol Hill Club. Here, Forge Leadership Network Executive Director and Buckley Award winner Adam Josefczyk with his wife, Jessica.
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The awards are named after William F. Buckley Jr., founder of the National Review Magazine and a leader of the early conservative movement. In his honor, awards began as a way to recognize outstanding young professional conservatives for their above-and-beyond service to the movement. Here, Buckley Award winner Ashlea Frazier, director of programs for Hillsdale College Kirby Center, with her husband, Allen Frazier.
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The awards were originally founded and organized by the Young Conservatives Coalition from 2010-2016, and this year marked the first run by the America’s Future Foundation. Here, Buckley Award winners — Conservative Book Club Editor-in-Chief Christopher Malagisi and Alliance Defending Freedom legal counsel Kerri Kupec.
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These young leaders are recognized for leading or organizing a significant grass-roots or high-profile initiative, advancing conservative principles or young conservative activism, impacting news coverage of a high-profile issue or displaying courage under fire. Here, America's Future Foundation VP Heather Pfitzenmaier, The Heritage Foundation's Helena Richardson and The Federalist Society's Peter Redpath.
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Here, Buckley Award winner Russ Vought, who works at the Office of Management and Budget, with his wife, Vought Strategies' Mary Vought, and HSLDA's Landon Farmer.
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