Russ Walker
Russ Walker is an accomplished political executive with over 28 years of experience leading statewide and national campaigns and organizations.
He has served as a senior advisor to presidential candidates and U.S. Senators. For nearly three decades, he has provided general consulting and campaign management services to private corporate clients, non-profits, ballot measures, and political candidates. He has worked on campaigns in 40 of the fifty states and overseas.
Russ has advised some of the most influential organizations on the right, including the State Policy Network, FreedomWorks, Club for Growth, and Republicans Overseas. He has also collaborated closely with several of the nation’s most successful state-based think tanks, such as Libertas (Utah), the Mackinac Center for Public Policy (Michigan), the James Madison Institute (Florida), among others.
He founded and led FreedomWorks for America, along with other political action committees over the past two decades. He played a key role in organizing, training, and guiding the Tea Party movement.
Russ also created the Afghanistan Relief Project (ARP) and the Ukrainian Relief Project (URP). The ARP was established to provide a sustainable rescue and evacuation network for American citizens (AMCITS), Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders, Afghan allies of U.S. personnel, persecuted minorities, religious groups, women, and children—ultimately resulting in the rescue of thousands. The URP developed a sustainable evacuation infrastructure, bases of operation, and humanitarian aid services for civilian victims of the Ukrainian-Russian war.
He has been interviewed and quoted by numerous media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, The Daily Show, Lehrer NewsHour, Mother Jones, Politico, The Hill, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Ruthless Podcast, Sara Carter show and many others.
Russ was appointed to the Oregon Advisory Board for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and has served on the boards of Baker Charter School and the Peter R. Marsh Foundation.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and served in the Army National Guard. He is married to Lisa Walker, and together they have four children and two dogs. They reside in Oregon.