Roger Custer, Conference Director

Roger Custer is the Conference Director at Young America's Foundation. He was born and raised in California. His interest in the Conservative Movement started when he attended a Young America's Foundation conference and interned for former California Assemblyman Tony Strickland, both in 1999.

Custer graduated in 2004 from Ithaca College in New York. There, he served as chairman of the campus conservative club and president of Students for Life. He led a successful campaign for intellectual diversity by hosting conservative speakers, arranging events, participating in debates, and calling for conservative coursework to balance the existing courses in Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism.

Since 2004, he has been responsible for the nation’s largest conservative student conferences at Young America's Foundation. These events, and others organized by Custer, frequently appear on C-SPAN in over 92 million homes nationwide and on the internet. His activism in college, and at Young America’s Foundation, has been nationally recognized. His work has been discussed in TIME, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Ithaca Journal. Additionally, he appeared live on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.” He received a Ronald Reagan College Leader Scholarship from the Phillips Foundation and Human Events named Custer one of the top ten young conservative activists in the country.

Custer is a deacon in his church and lives in Virginia with his wife. He is working toward a Master's Degree in non-profit management at George Mason University. His hobbies include endurance sports, playing clarinet and doing community service.