RachelHoff

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Location: 

Washington, D.C.

Status: 

Professional

Expertise Area: 

American politics, national security, Smart Power

Email: 

rachel.hoff@gmail.com

Affiliation (Occupation/Company/University etc.): 

Young Republican National Federation

Country of Citizenship: 

United States

Date of Birth: 

1982

Rachel Hoff serves as a writer, researcher, and legislative assistant for Congressman Mac Thornberry (TX-13), focusing specifically on foreign policy and national security issues. For the 2006 and 2007 election cycles, she was field director for the Young Republican National Federation (YRNF), coordinating a nationwide grassroots campaign to elect and re-elect Republican candidates. In 2008 Rachel will serve as chairman of the YRNF Campaign Committee, developing and implementing a national strategy to increase young voter turnout in key presidential and congressional states. For her efforts to encourage youth involvement in GOP politics, she was recently named National Young Republican Woman of the Year.

Previously, Rachel was a research assistant in Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Working with several of AEI's prominent foreign policy experts, she specialized on the Middle East, democracy, terrorism, and weapons nonproliferation. In the fall of 2004, Rachel served as statewide youth coordinator for the South Dakota Republican Party when John Thune unseated Minority Leader Tom Daschle in the U.S. Senate. Also that year, she was awarded the Dan Dutko Fellowship for public policy, which brought her to Washington.

Born and raised on a military base in Tokyo, Japan, she has also lived abroad in England and Ireland, where she researched the politics of the European Union and the conflict in Northern Ireland. She holds a BA from Tufts University in Political Science and Philosophy and a Certificate in Irish Politics from the University College of Cork.

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