National Advisory Board and Special Advisors

  • Secretary Michael R. Pompeo

    Special Advisor, Former 70th U.S. Secretary of State, Former CIA Director

  • Jillian Hartley, PhD

    Chair, Professor of History and Political Science Arkansas Northeastern College

  • Colonel Robert Certain

    USAF ret., B-52 Navigator, POW

  • General Wesley K. Clark

    US Army ret., Former NATO Allied Supreme Commander

  • Governor Asa Hutchinson

    Former 46th Governor of Arkansas

  • William R. Ferris, PhD

    Former Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities

  • Jonna Mendez

    Former Chief of Disguise, CIA

  • Pamela Nelson

    Artist, Former Presidential Appointee, US Commission of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.

  • Edward Salo, PhD

    Assoc. Director of Heritage Studies and Assoc. Professor of History, Arkansas State University

  • Orson C. Weems

    Co-founder, The Music Education Initiative

  • Victoria Phillips, Ph.D.

    Author and Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics, Director, Cold War Archival History Project

  • Mary Bane Lackie, PhD

    Vice President of Advancement, Foundation President at the University of Central Arkansas