Lisa De Pasquale


Lisa De Pasquale is a conservative author and pop culture commentator who lives in Northern Virginia. She served as the director of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference put on by the American Conservative Union, a post she held from 2006 to 2011. Before her time at ACU, De Pasquale was employed at the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute and is an alumna of Flagler College. Her Townhall.com column, formerly at Human Events, "De Pasquale's Dozen", asks twelve questions of newsmakers and is syndicated by NPR and elsewhere. The column has featured interviews with Ann Coulter, Marco Rubio, Erick Erickson, Michelle Malkin, Ed Morrissey, Nick Gillespie, Andy Levy, and others. She is the former chairman of the GOProud Board of Directors.
She was a frequent guest on Red Eye on the Fox News Channel and is currently a regular guest on "Kennedy" on Fox Business Network. She is also cohost of the Political Punks Podcast. Popular guests include Greg Gutfeld, Nick Gillespie, Thaddeus McCotter, Milo Yiannopoulos and Chuck Dixon.
She is the founder and editor of BRIGHT, a female-centric daily email on politics and culture, and columnist for The Federalist.
De Pasquale is the author of the memoir Finding Mr. Righteous released in February 2014. the political humor book The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials and Generation Z released in September 2017, and the novel I Wish I Might released in November 2017.