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

William R. Ferris, PhD

Former Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities

Governor Asa Hutchinson

Former 46th Governor of Arkansas

Mary Bane Lackie, EdD

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

Jonna Mendez

Former Chief of Disguise, CIA

Pamela Nelson

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

Victoria Phillips, PhD

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

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