Board of Directors

Tom McDonough is a co-founder and current president of The American Family Project. For 35 years he was in commercial real estate finance and development, including eight years in Prague, Czech Republic. He is the author of four books including An Eye for Others: Dorothy Day, Journalist 1916-1917. His writing has appeared in The American Conservative, First Things, Crisis and American Greatness.

Emmett McGroarty, a graduate of Georgetown University and Fordham School of Law, has long labored in support of the family. He is Director of Research and Planning at The Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America. Prior the joining CUA, he was Director of Education at American Principles Project where he led its effort to defend parental rights and to ensure that they have a say in what their children learn and who teaches it to them. McGroarty is one of the four co-founders of Truth in American Education, a nationwide network of individuals and organizations that sheds light on the Common Core system.

He is co-author of Cogs in the Machine: Big Data, Common Core, and National Testing, and Deconstructing the Administrative State (2017). His other written works have been published by, among others, Crisis Magazine, Daily Caller, New York Post, Public Discourse, The Blaze, The Examiner, Townhall Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and USA Today. He has been a guest on, among others, the Glenn Beck Program, the Daily Run Down with Chuck Todd, Fox News, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larson, The Hugh Hewitt Show, and The Steve Deace Show.

Louis March is a co-founder of The American Family Project. He has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host and public speaker, he writes for Mercator Net and Chronicles. Louis lives with his family in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Robert Moffit is a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation concentrating on Health Care Policy. Before coming to Heritage in the mid-90’s he was on various staffs in the U.S. Senate. Bringing Orestes Brownson to the national prominence he deserves has been Robert’s lifetime project. His PhD thesis was on Brownson’s interpretation of the U.S. Constitution and he has written numerous articles on Brownson and Federalism.

Brian Robertson is a writer and policy advisor. While working at Family Research Council in the early 2000’s he authored There’s No Place Like Work, a critical analysis of trends in the work vs family balance debate.

George Kelly has over two decades of commercial real estate, consulting, finance and government experience serving as a Managing Director at Hines Interests Limited Partnership and Madison Marquette. George received a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Following West Point, he served as an infantry officer.  .