Melissa (Seckora) Anderson is Associate Director of EPPC's Program to Protect America's Freedom.
Before joining EPPC, Mrs. Anderson was a Communications Advisor for the Senate Republican Conference, the leadership office chaired by former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA). There she developed and managed strategic communications on a wide array of issues, including national security, and briefed Republican leadership, Conference members, and staff on daily and long-term communications activity.
Before serving on Capitol Hill, Mrs. Anderson was a reporter for The Hill newspaper and an editorial associate for National Review magazine where she assisted the Washington bureau editor and wrote frequently on national politics, culture, and the arts. Her articles have appeared in National Review, National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, the New York Post, and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. She has also appeared on Fox News Channel, CNN, and National Public Radio. She spent her early years in Washington working for the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies.
A Michigan native, Mrs. Anderson graduated with a degree in political theory and German from James Madison College at Michigan State University in 1997. She is a Lincoln Fellow with the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. She and her husband Doug live in Washington, D.C.
