• Founder and Head of Buckley School

Reid Buckley has been a champion public speaker since his debating days at Yale. During the 1960s and 1970s, he toured the United States, taking on liberal columnist Max Lerner in clashes that have been compared to the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Among his published works are novels and several books on speaking and writing, the most recent being Strictly Speaking: Reid Buckley’s Indispensable Handbook on Public Speaking.

• Coaching Faculty

Karen Edwards Kalutz is a Master Coach and Director of the Buckley School. Before joining the school in1988, she taught high school English (among her students were two of Reid’s children, which she says was "intimidating, as you can imagine") . In addition to coaching public speaking seminars, she is active in private coaching for corporate and professional clients and leads the advanced programs for the Buckley School. Ms. Kalutz has two sons.

Harriet Geer DuBose is a Master Coach and has been with the Buckley School since 1990. A leading private coach, she is also a principal in several specialized seminars and workshops. Matriculating at the Medical College of South Carolina, she completed course work for a PhD in Respiratory Physiology before marriage and three sons intervened between Ms. DuBose and her dissertation.

Caroline Buxton Avinger was trained and certified by The Protocol School of Washington®, the leader in etiquette and protocol services. She has taught public speaking and business writing at the Buckley School. In addition, she freelances as a speech writer and copy editor. She earned a BA in English from Davidson College and a master’s degree in education from Converse College. She is president of Protocol, LLC®.

Carol Charlton Ehreth, Coach and Alternate Seminar Director, was born in Virginia, reared in Manhattan and found her way to Camden, where she now has the pleasure of coaching at the Buckley School with her uncle Reid. After attending the Ethel Walker School, she received her BS in Political Science from the University of Virginia. In addition to engaging in family forensics and researching debate topics for the Buckley School, she is rearing three daughters.

Jenny Maxwell brings a background in television and advertising to her role as coach at the Buckley School. She works as a writer and producer, and was for many years marketing director at one of the top NBC affiliates. She is currently serving as the writer for two Food Network TV series. She earned a BA in Victorian Literature from UNC-Greensboro and her MA in English from the University of South Carolina. She also teaches Writing To Make Your Point: Wit, Style and Persuasion when Ms. Parker is unavailable.

One of the Buckley School’s freshest coaches, Barbara Hall Beard grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and was lured to Camden via a marriage proposal. She received a BS in Business from The College of Charleston (long ago) and a Masters in Educational Counseling from The Citadel (not so long ago). Her background is in business management and she says her favorite job was running a summer camp for girls in the mountains of North Carolina. She fails to mention that she is a triple threat, one daughter and two sons.

• Consulting Faculty

A principal in the 3-day Technical & Business Writing Workshops, L. Brent Bozell inaugurated the Brent Bozell Media Workshop in 2002. L. Brent Bozell is a founder of the MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER, the largest media watchdog organization in America. Founder of the PARENTS’ TELEVISION COUNCIL also, he leads the only Hollywood-based organization dedicated to restoring responsibility to the entertainment industry.

Mr. Bozell is a nationally syndicated writer whose work appears in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the L.A. Times, and National Review. He is regularly invited to provide media expertise on news programs by all the major networks and cable affiliates. His appearances include NBC’s Today Show, CNN’s Inside Politics, and Larry King Live, ABC’s Good Morning America, many Fox News Channel shows, C-SPAN, CBN and Entertainment Tonight. He has appeared as a guest and guest host on hundreds of radio shows, from local talk shows to ABC Radio, NPR’s Morning Edition, The Michael Reagan Show, and the Rush Limbaugh Show.

He is married and the father of five.

Fortune Magazine calls Christopher Buckley “the quintessential political novelist of his time.” He has also been called “the best social satirist of his day” and “the best political satirist of his generation.”

Since 1989, he has been founder and editor-in-chief of Forbes FYI Magazine.

He is the author of ten books, five of them national bestsellers, and all of them named by The New York Times as Notable Books of the Year. His novels include The White House Mess, Wet Work, Thank You For Smoking, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, and No way To Treat A First Lady.

Joseph Heller called Buckley “an effervescent joy.” John Updike described him as “the last of the funny writers, a Benchley with WordPerfect.” Tom Wolfe has called him “one of the three funniest writers in the English language.”

Christopher Buckley’s novella, Field of Screams, may be the funniest piece of satire to have emerged from his inspired imagination so far. (See www.nadapress.com)

John Buckley, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications, oversees all external communications for America Online, the world’s leader in interactive services. While at AOL, he oversaw the launch of AOL 8.0, AOL for Broadband, and AOL 9.0.

Before he was named to head Corporate Communications for AOL, Mr. Buckley was Vice President of AOL Time Warner, where he served as a spokesman and strategist on policy and corporate communications issues.

He served for a decade as Sr. Vice President of Communications at Fannie Mae Corporation, the nation’s largest non-bank financial services company. He was responsible there for external communications, employee communications, corporate advertising, events, and the company’s online activities.

Prior to Fannie Mae, he served the National Republican Congressional Committee as Communications Director, and was press secretary for Congressman Jack Kemp, both in his congressional office and later, in his campaign for the 1988 Republican nomination for President.

While on leave from Fannie Mae, and some said his senses, Mr. Buckley was Communications Director for Dole-Kemp ’96. In a happier incarnation, he was spokesman and Deputy press Secretary to President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush when they ran for reelection in 1984. At age 24, he was Press Secretary to New York Republican gubernatorial nominee Lewis Lehrman.

Mr. Buckley is the author of two comic novels: Family Politics (Simon & Schuster, 1988), and Statute of Limitations (Simon & Schuster, 1990).

He has written for national publications such as The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, National Review, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

Mr. Buckley is married and the father of one child.

• Consulting Scholars

Gerard V. Bradley graduated from Cornell Law School summa cum laude in 1980 and immediately thereafter served as a trial lawyer in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. After teaching law for nine years at the University of Illinois he joined the Notre Dame law faculty in 1992. At Notre Dame he serves as Co-Director of the Natural Law Institute and Co-Editor-in-Chief for The American Journal of Jurisprudence, an international forum for legal philosophy. Bradley is also a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, Director of the Center on Religion and the Constitution of the Witherspoon Institute, and was for many years President of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. He was a Visiting Professor of Politics at Princeton University in 2009.

Professor Bradley has published over a hundred scholarly articles and authored or edited ten books. His most recent books are: Essays on Law, Morality, and Religion (Scranton 2010); Religious Liberty in the United States (Heritage Foundation 2008); A Student's Guide to the Study of Law (ISI 2006). He has written for many popular journals, including First Things, National Review, and The Weekly Standard. Bradley has also testified many times before Congressional committees as an expert witness in constitutional law.

Robert P. George holds Princeton’s celebrated McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence and is the founding director of the James Madison Program. He serves on the President’s Council on Bioethics, and is a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. He was a Presidential Appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights and a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds honorary doctorates of law, ethics, letters, civil law, humane letters, and science. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, he received a doctorate in legal philosophy from Oxford University.

Professor George is the author of In Defense of Natural Law, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, and The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis, and co-author of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life and Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics. His scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, and the Review of Politics. Professor George is a recipient of many honors and awards.

Bradford P. Wilson is the Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He specializes in American constitutional law; American political thought; and Western political thought. He is President of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Moscow State University in 1994-95. He served three years as Research Associate to two Chief Justices of the United States, Warren E. Burger and William H. Rehnquist. From 1996 to 2004, he served as Executive Director of the National Association of Scholars. A graduate of North Carolina State University and Northern Illinois University, Dr. Wilson earned a PhD from Catholic University of America.

Professor Wilson is the author of Enforcing the Fourth Amendment: A Jurisprudential History and co-editor of three books: American Political Parties & Constitutional Politics, Separation of Powers and Good Government, and The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism. He is the author of several scholarly articles for journals and chapters for books, including "The Fourth Amendment as More Than a Form of Words: The View from the Founding," in The Bill of Rights: Original Meaning and Current Understanding, and "Separation of Powers and Judicial Review," in Separation of Powers and Good Government.

• Additional Faculty

Glenn Tucker, a veteran newspaperman, conducts media training at the Buckley School. As publisher of The Camden Chronicle, he was awarded many national newspaper honors. Independently an astute businessman, he is also an advisor to the University of South Carolina’s School of Journalism.

Emalee Robbins, not unlike a petite and lovely Tasmanian devil, whirls into seminars, urging students to stretch themselves dramatically. An actor, director, former national television host and vocal coach for the Buckley School, she also provides private voice classes for students on request.

David Stanton, a former attorney and current television journalist, assists with media training. Stanton anchors the news at the NBC affiliate in Columbia, South Carolina. He has moderated presidential debates for CNN and NBC, most recently co-anchoring the Republican candidates debate with NBC’s Brian Williams.