Staff
American Majority Virginia serves as the company headquarters of American Majority and is located in Purcellville, VA. Our proximity to D.C. is far enough that it allows the national team to operate within the grassroots, outside the confining standards of the Beltway. The Virginia staff provides training materials, resources, and other direct support to our state offices and field representatives. American Majority Virginia also conducts candidate and activist trainings along the East Coast as needed.
You are invited to browse the national staff bios below, learn more about the individuals that drive American Majority, and connect with AM elsewhere on the Internet.
Contact the National Office:
American Majority
P.O. Box 87
Purcellville, VA 20134
Phone: 540-338-1251
Fax: 540-338-2326
Ned Ryun ~ President
A rising star in the conservative and Tea Party movements, Ned Ryun is the founder and President of American Majority, a non-partisan political training institute whose mission is to identify and mold the next wave of liberty-minded candidates, grassroots activists and community leaders. Under Ryun’s leadership, American Majority has trained nearly 20,000 candidates and activists since January 2009, conducting 500 in-person trainings in an unprecedented national effort to recruit new community leaders. Ned also conceived of the nation’s first Training Bomb to help train and mobilize the conservative grassroots.
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Matt Robbins ~ National Executive Director
Matt Robbins is the national Executive Director for American Majority. Previously he was political director for the California Republican Party, the largest Republican state party in the United States. He has also served as a Coalitions director on McCain-Palin 2008 and as the Director of Training at the Leadership Institute. Matt has personally trained thousands of political activists nationwide and in several foreign countries on campaign management, communications and party and candidate development.
Additionally, Matt has worked as a “friendly-fire” analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, and in both state-level races and state government.
Matt is an Arkansas native and holds a degree in English from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He currently resides in Leesburg, VA.
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Jaoni Wood ~ Director of Administration
Jaoni Wood joined American Majority as Office Manager in October of 2008. Jaoni graduated with honors from Liberty University, with a degree in History and a minor in Government. As part of her school experience, she completed internships with the Republican National Committee and the White House, wrote for the campus newspaper, was a member of Phi Alpha Theta, and organized students as campaign volunteers. She has professional experience as a medical receptionist, and teaching 7th and 8th grade World History.
Jaoni and her husband Gabe have 2 adorable boys, Theo and Noah, and love their hometown of Purcellville, Virginia.
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Allison James ~ Director of Public Relations
Allison James joined American Majority in November 2009 as Director of Public Relations. Prior to this position she worked as the government relations and communications specialist at a non-profit business coalition in Washington D.C. and at a large public relations agency in Pittsburgh. Allison graduated from Kent State University with a bachelor’s degree in public relations and a minor in marketing. In college she was the vice president of the Public Relations Student Society of America, a national association comprised of about 20,000 students across the country. She currently lives in Nashville, TN, with her husband Austin and dogs Montgomery and Remington.
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Kasey Ginsberg ~ Program Coordinator
Kasey Ginsberg joined American Majority in August 2010 as a Program Coordinator. A May 2010 graduate of Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C., Kasey majored in political science and minored in communication and ethics. Kasey was very involved in college, serving as Senior Class Vice-President, Fundraising Co-Chair and a member of various clubs and organizations. Additionally, she interned in a variety of political fields including for the state party, statewide and local campaigns, as well as a state-based think-tank. She currently lives in Leesburg, V.A.
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Austin James ~ Director of Digital Communication
Austin joined American Majority in May of 2009, serving as Director of New Media Strategy. In this capacity, Austin is driving American Majority’s online communication and brand management.
Prior to joining American Majority, Austin worked at the public affairs firm Powell Tate in Washington, DC. Austin left the corporate world to co-found RWG Strategies, a political consultancy specializing in digital communication and Web strategy. Austin earned his undergraduate degree from Auburn University and his master’s degree in public relations from the University of Alabama. Austin and his wife Allison currently reside in Nashville, TN.
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