Katie Gorka has had an extensive career in government and research. She was a research fellow for outreach at The Heritage Foundation and later joined the Trump Transition Team in 2016. From 2017 to 2019, she served as a senior advisor in the Office of Policy at the Department of Homeland Security, focusing on strategies for preventing terrorism, targeted violence, and combating the use of the internet for terrorism and human trafficking. In 2019, she briefly served as the press secretary for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Before her government positions, Katie served as the President of the Threat Knowledge Group from 2014 to 2017. In this role, she offered expertise and training on irregular warfare and terrorism to various organizations, including the FBI, US Army Special Forces, Marine Corps, and law enforcement. From 2009 to 2014, she held the position of Executive Director at the Westminster Institute, where she conducted research and education on threats posed by extremist ideologies.

Katie was born in Boston and grew up in various places on the East Coast, from Franconia, New Hampshire, to Asheville, North Carolina. She earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She lived in Budapest, Hungary for twelve years, working on aspects of the post-communist transition, including projects to help rebuild civil society.

Mike Gonzalez, the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, writes on critical race theory, identity politics, diversity, multiculturalism, assimilation, nationalism, and foreign policy. He has nearly 20 years of experience as a journalist, with 15 years reporting from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He transitioned from journalism to join the administration of President George W. Bush, where he served as a speechwriter for Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox before moving on to the State Department’s European Bureau.

Gonzalez joined Heritage in March 2009 and became a Senior Fellow in June 2014. In 2019, he was appointed as a chaired fellow. He is an experienced writer and public speaker, having contributed to publications such as National Affairs, The American Interest, Foreign Policy, The Claremont Review of Books, City Journal, Quillette, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time.com, The Hill, Forbes.com, USA Today, The Guardian, The National Interest, The Daily Signal, and National Review. Gonzalez has also made appearances on various networks and stations, including Fox, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC, CNBC, NPR, C-SPAN, The Voice of America, Television Española, Canal Plus, and others in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

In 1981, Gonzalez started covering high school sports for The Boston Herald. Then, in 1987, he began working for Agence France-Presse and reported from various locations around the world for six years. During his first foreign assignment in Panama in 1987, he was arrested, spent a night in jail, and expelled by the dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega.

After completing a two-year Master's in Business Administration program at Columbia Business School, he worked at The Wall Street Journal for 11 years. During this time, he wrote a column on the stock market in New York before moving to Hong Kong in 1995 as Deputy Editor of the newspaper’s Asia edition. From 1998 to 2003, he served in the same position for the European edition in Brussels and then returned to Hong Kong as the chief editorial page editor.

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I was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, and moved to Canada when I was 17. I spent much of my 20s and 30s following the path I believed was expected of me: I received a degree in Psychology and Law, and I earned a Master’s degree in International Law. Despite the accolades, I was unfulfilled and wondered if my life had a higher purpose.

I started fearing my age, feeling like my life was wasted on unimportant stuff, and it felt like time had ‘tick-taken’ away without me even noticing.

Then, I was in a terrifying accident at my family’s cabin outside of Moscow. A fire almost took my life, and everything changed. I can still remember breathing in amid the suffocating smoke and wondering if I was taking my last breath. I survived the fire and was left in wonderment at how little time separated me from death. It shifted my perspective, and after years of wasting time and pursuing what others expected of me, I finally started living for myself.

At 42 years old, I decided to forget everything I’d learned that was considered “proper,” instead, I began living by a new rule – the “What if?” rule. I asked myself, ‘What if there’s an answer to my questions on the other side of some crazy idea? What if there’s happiness and satisfaction?’ I taught myself to listen carefully to those risk-taking thoughts, and now I act on them. The results are always a win simply because I believe it is always better to do something, even if you fail, rather than regret not doing it.

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Tom Paladino is a Christian, husband, researcher, and humanitarian who aims to bring Scalar Light healing to the world in order to improve the quantum health of humanity. He began researching Scalar Light during his undergraduate years after developing a deep admiration for Nikola Tesla, the Father of Scalar Light research and development. Starting in 1993, Tom studied research notes and operated Scalar Light instruments developed by another Scalar Light expert, Galen Hieronymus. Tom attributes much of his success today to these two brilliant Scalar Light pioneers.

There are two energies in the universe: Scalar Energy and electromagnetic energy. Scalar Energy is divine energy, and the Sun, our solar system, and the stars serve as the "storehouses" for this divine light. The laws that govern Scalar Energy are distinct from the laws that govern electromagnetic energy.

Tom Paladino has devoted a significant portion of his humanitarian efforts to helping Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) with outreach programs. NGOs are made up of action-based program developers and a community of like-minded people committed to making sustainable, humanitarian-oriented impacts all over the world.

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