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David R. Burton

Senior Fellow in Economic Policy, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies

Jonathan Butcher

@JM_Butcher

Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy, Center for Education Policy

David Calhoun

Visiting Fellow, China Transparency Project in Africa, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies

Rachel Alexander Cambre

Visiting Fellow, B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies

GianCarlo Canaparo

Senior Legal Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies

James Jay Carafano

@JJCarafano

Vice President, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, and the E. W. Richardson Fellow

Brian J. Cavanaugh

@brianjcavanau

Visiting Fellow, Border Security, Border Security and Immigration Center

Maiya Clark

Senior Research Associate, Defense Industrial Base, Center for National Defense

Victoria Coates

Senior Research Fellow, International Affairs and National Security, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom

Michael Cunningham

Research Fellow, China, Asian Studies Center

Kevin Dayaratna, Ph.D.

@kdd0211

Chief Statistician, Data Scientist, and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Data Analysis

Rick A. Dearborn

Visiting Fellow, 2025 Presidential Transition Project

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