About

Thomas A. Shakely is a contributing editor to The Philadelphia Bulletin, the “family newspaper” in the City of Brotherly Love.

He column, “Behind The Ivory Curtain,” appears weekly at The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson’s news site.

In January 2009, Tom began guest blogging at American Solutions for Winning the Future, a citizen action network and think tank founded by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich based in Washington, DC. American Solutions develops strategies to meet the challenges confronting America in the 21st century by harnessing “tri-partisan” solutions in politics and public policy.

Mr. Shakely volunteers as Vice President for Development for the Penn State Student Radio Alumni Interest Group (SRAIG), an affiliate group of the Penn State Alumni Association. He is currently tasked with the establishment and fundraising for a permanent endowment to secure the long term financial viability of student radio on the University Park campus.

At Penn State, Tom worked for three years at The LION 90.7fm (WKPS), the campus radio station, where he learned corporate financial, programming and personnel management as president and general manager.

He continues to contribute on-air as a panelist on the station’s long time public affairs talk show, “Radio Free Penn State,” which since its founding in 1999 has interviewed everyone from polemicists like Ann Coulter and Tammy Bruce to scholars like Dinesh D’Souza and Thomas Woods to intellectuals like Dr. Alan Kors.

Tom serves as president of Renew Education Foundation, a non-partisan group working to improve and enhance the national dialog on the purpose and value of learning. Renew Education focuses on high-impact, mainstream methods to impact the  narrative on education over the long term.

Tom is a direct descendant of Michael Shakely (d. 1820), a militiaman who fought in the Revolutionary War. He splits his time between Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, DC. An avid reader and traveler, he enjoys warm weather and good beer, and aspires to own a beagle.