Ryan Nees
About Ryan NeesI'm an occasional writer, freelance political consultant, former White House intern, and student at Yale University. In 2011 I was a Clinton Foundation fellow at the American University in Dubai and a summer consultant at Monitor in Saudi Arabia.At Howey Politics Indiana, I led an investigation that uncovered hundreds of election law violations by two presidential campaigns, set off an ongoing prosecutorial probe, and won national news coverage. Previously my reporting won links from The Page, Firedoglake, and POLITICO, and a website I edited was called "one of the best and most viewed sites on Indiana politics." I've appeared on the Fox News Channel and Lou Dobbs Tonight. In high school, I won a public access lawsuit against my hometown and earned a national Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for making "important contributions in the continuing fight for open government." I've won two Pollie awards for political consulting from the American Association of Political Consultants, the largest organization of political and public affairs professionals in the world. And I served as the youngest-ever intern in the office of Senator Richard Lugar and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. At Yale, I work as a student tech at the Yale Law School Library and formerly for the Yale Sustainable Food Project. I graduated Salutatorian from Western High School as a National Merit Scholar, a national Coca-Cola Scholar, a Chrysler Foundation Scholar, a Robert C. Byrd Memorial Scholar, and an Indiana Elks Scholar. |