Roger Custer

Roger was born and raised in California . His interest in the Conservative Movement started when he attended the Young America's Foundation National Conservative Student Conference and interned for former California Assemblyman Tony Strickland, both in 1999.

Custer graduated cum laude from Ithaca College in Ithaca , N.Y. in 2004. There, he served as chairman of the campus conservatives and president of Students for Life. He led a successful campaign for intellectual diversity by hosting conservative speakers, events, 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 including the National Conservative Student Conference and the Gratia Houghton Rinehart National High School Leadership Conference. These events, and others organized by Custer, frequently appear on C-SPAN in over 90 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. He received a Ronald Reagan College Leader Scholarship from the Phillips Foundation in 2003 and Human Events named Custer one of the top ten young conservative activists in the country in 2005. Additionally, he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference about his activism, and appeared live on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.”

Custer is active in his church and lives in Virginia with his wife. His hobbies include playing clarinet and doing community service.