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Christopher Rufo
Christopher Ferguson Rufo (born August 26, 1984) is an American conservative activist, New College of Florida board member, and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He is an opponent of critical race theory. He is a former documentary filmmaker and former fellow at the Discovery Institute, the Claremont Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.
Rufo has been involved in Republican efforts to restrict critical race theory instruction or seminars, which he says "has pervaded every aspect of the federal government" and poses "an existential threat to the United States". Rufo's appearances with Tucker Carlson on Fox News reportedly influenced President Donald Trump to issue an executive order in 2020 banning some topics from diversity training for the government and contractors; the order was rescinded by President Joe Biden in 2021.
He is a contributing editor of the conservative policy magazine City Journal, and a distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College.
Rufo was born on August 26, 1984. He was raised in Sacramento, California. His father was born in San Donato Val di Comino, Italy.
Rufo received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 2006. He received a Master of Liberal Arts in the field of government from the Harvard Extension School in 2022.
Rufo was a visiting fellow for domestic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation and a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute. Later, he was a research fellow at the Discovery Institute, a Christian think tank, where he was a director of their Center on Wealth, Poverty, & Morality.
He was a documentary filmmaker in his twenties and early thirties, with various overseas projects such as Roughing It: Mongolia, and a film about baseball in Xinjiang called Diamond in the Dunes. As the founder of American Studio, "a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating new work about the American experience", he has directed four documentaries, including America Lost, which attempts to tell the story of “forgotten American cities.” Generally, his work as a filmmaker had him "focused on urban areas".
In 2017, Rufo was one of 30 plaintiffs in a lawsuit that successfully prevented Seattle from imposing a 2.25% income tax on sums above $250,000 a year for individuals and over $500,000 for couples. In 2018, he briefly attempted a run for the city council. In 2021, Rufo spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando. In April 2022, Rufo was reported to have 2,500 paid subscribers to his newsletter. In 2022, the SPLC described Rufo as a "far-right propagandist".
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Christopher Rufo
Christopher Ferguson Rufo (born August 26, 1984) is an American conservative activist, New College of Florida board member, and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He is an opponent of critical race theory. He is a former documentary filmmaker and former fellow at the Discovery Institute, the Claremont Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.
Rufo has been involved in Republican efforts to restrict critical race theory instruction or seminars, which he says "has pervaded every aspect of the federal government" and poses "an existential threat to the United States". Rufo's appearances with Tucker Carlson on Fox News reportedly influenced President Donald Trump to issue an executive order in 2020 banning some topics from diversity training for the government and contractors; the order was rescinded by President Joe Biden in 2021.
He is a contributing editor of the conservative policy magazine City Journal, and a distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College.
Rufo was born on August 26, 1984. He was raised in Sacramento, California. His father was born in San Donato Val di Comino, Italy.
Rufo received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 2006. He received a Master of Liberal Arts in the field of government from the Harvard Extension School in 2022.
Rufo was a visiting fellow for domestic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation and a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute. Later, he was a research fellow at the Discovery Institute, a Christian think tank, where he was a director of their Center on Wealth, Poverty, & Morality.
He was a documentary filmmaker in his twenties and early thirties, with various overseas projects such as Roughing It: Mongolia, and a film about baseball in Xinjiang called Diamond in the Dunes. As the founder of American Studio, "a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating new work about the American experience", he has directed four documentaries, including America Lost, which attempts to tell the story of “forgotten American cities.” Generally, his work as a filmmaker had him "focused on urban areas".
In 2017, Rufo was one of 30 plaintiffs in a lawsuit that successfully prevented Seattle from imposing a 2.25% income tax on sums above $250,000 a year for individuals and over $500,000 for couples. In 2018, he briefly attempted a run for the city council. In 2021, Rufo spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando. In April 2022, Rufo was reported to have 2,500 paid subscribers to his newsletter. In 2022, the SPLC described Rufo as a "far-right propagandist".