The Center for Competitive Politics is pleased to welcome Kelsey Drapkin to our team as an External Relations Associate.
Kelsey spent the past two summers interning for The Blaze in Dallas, Texas, gaining experience with deadline research and writing as well as the unpredictable nature of live television and radio. She is currently a junior political economics major with a psychology and journalism double minor at Hillsdale College in Michigan. While spending the majority of her time studying at Hillsdale, Kelsey writes for the college newspaper, The Collegian, is the president of a club she helped found called Hillsdale Chavarah, works as a Student Ambassador, and sings in two choirs.
In her time at Hillsdale, Kelsey has grown passionate about the principles upon which our country was founded. Kelsey sees the guarantee of free speech, assembly, and petition found in the First Amendment as fundamental to having a free country.
“I am excited to apply my knowledge of and passion for the First Amendment to my work at CCP,” said Kelsey. “Restrictions on campaign financing – namely limiting the amount a person, organization, or business entity can contribute to a campaign – are a direct assault on our First Amendment right to freedom of speech.”
During her time at CCP, Kelsey will produce legislative analyses and conduct research on a variety of topical political speech issues.
