Ismael HernandezIsmael Hernandez is the founder and president of the Freedom & Virtue Institute. He worked in an inner-city ministry in Florida for fifteen years before he founded the Freedom & Virtue Institute in 2009. He regularly lectures for the Acton Institute n Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has lectured for the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Foundation for Government Accountability, and the Foundation for Economic Education. His writings have appeared in Religion & Liberty, Crisis, World, The Vital Center, the Washington Times, and Schweizer Monat in Switzerland. He is the author of *Not Tragically Colored: Freedom, Personhood, and the Renewal of Black America* and of an essay in the forthcoming *A Pathway to American Renewal: Red, White, and Black (vol. 2)*. He holds an MA in political science from the University of Southern Mississippi. Read More Read Less