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Frank Pastore

Frank Pastore:

For the past six years, Frank Pastore has been the host of the most-listened to live Christian talk show in the country, heard weekday afternoons in Los Angeles from 4-7pm on 99.5 KKLA.For the past 31 years, he's been happily married to his bride Gina, and they've got two adult children, a boy and a girl, and one grandson, Michael.

For seven years, he pitched in the big leagues with the Cincinnati Reds, before going to seminary at Talbot, and then later on, he did another master's degree in political philosophy at Claremont Graduate University.His book with Tyndale and Focus on the Family is entitled "Shattered: Struck Down, But Not Destroyed."
Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson:

Paul Bede Johnson is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. While associated with the left in his early career, he is now a conservative popular historian.

Beginning with Modern Times (1985), Paul Johnson's books are acknowledged masterpieces of historical analysis. He is a regular columnist for Forbes and The Spectator, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.
Bruce Herschensohn

Bruce Herschensohn

Bruce Herschensohn has been a television and radio political commentator for the more than two decades. After service in the United States Air Force, he began his own motion picture company.

He was the 1992 Republican nominee for the United States Senate in California and was defeated while winning over one million votes more than the national ticket of the Party. He is currently teaching "The World Leadership Role of the United States" at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, and is a non-resident associate fellow of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, as well as a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Individual Freedom
Joseph Telushkin

Joseph Telushkin

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, spiritual leader and scholar, is the acclaimed author of nine other nonfiction books, including The Book of Jewish Values, The Golden Land: The Story of Jewish Immigration to America, and Jewish Literacy, the most widely read book on Judaism of the past two decades. He is a senior associate of CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, serves on the board of the Jewish Book Council, and is the rabbi of the Los Angeles-based Synagogue for the Performing Arts. He lives with his family in New York City and lectures regularly throughout the United States.
Alison Armstrong

Alison Armstrong

Alison Armstrong was born in Laguna Beach, California in 1960, Alison Armstrong has been designing and leading transformational programs for adults for over 20 years. Since 1989, she has been training others to facilitate growth, healing and transformation. In 1995, after four years of studying men for her personal benefit, she created the Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women workshop series to share her extraordinary findings with women across the nation. With her friend Joan McClain, she founded PAX Programs Incorporated with the mission of "altering society's culture by transforming the way women relate to men." PAX, the Latin word for "peace" and an acronym for Partnership, Adoration and Xtasy, creates peace between the sexes by providing unique and immediately useful information to women and men.

Prager University Leadership

Dennis Prager - President

President: Dennis Prager:

President of Prager University, Dennis Prager, is one of America's most respected thinkers. Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and syndicated columnist. He has written four books, including the #1 bestseller Happiness Is a Serious Problem. He has lectured on all seven continents and has been widely sought after by television shows for his opinions. He has appeared on Larry King Live, Hardball, Hannity & Colmes, CBS Evening News, The Today Show and many others.

Mr. Prager was a Fellow at Columbia University's School of International Affairs, where he did graduate work at the Middle East and Russian Institutes. He has taught Russian and Jewish history at Brooklyn College; and was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Delegation to the Vienna Review Conference on the Helsinki Accords. He holds an honorary doctorate of laws from Pepperdine University.
Allen Estrin - Chancellor

Chancellor: Allen Estrin:

Chancellor of Prager University, Allen Estrin is also the producer of the Dennis Prager show. Estrin's television, film and radio writing credits include multiple episodes of Emmy Award-winning TV shows THE PRACTICE, BOSTON PUBLIC and TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. In addition, he has written film history (The Hollywood Profession, Volume 6: Capra, Cukor and Brown), educational and corporate videos, and has directed the highly praised documentary ISRAEL IN A TIME OF TERROR (2002). Estrin's first novel, Heaven's Witness, was published in 2004 by Toby Press and named one of the best mysteries of that year by The Weekly Standard and became a CBS Special Event movie in 2006.
Marissa Sharpe - Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officer: Marissa Sharpe:

Marissa was born in Los Angeles. At age 7, she moved to Israel and completed her elementary and high school education. She later served in the IDF in military intelligence. After almost ten years as an educator, a school Principal and the Director of Operations for the Israeli Leadership Council Marissa has accepted the position of Chief Operating Officer at Prager University.

Marissa's diverse background, unique skills and experience in education, fundraising, social media, marketing and community building will help further PUF's mission and the goals. Marissa received her Bachelor's degree in Business and Economics from UCLA and her Master from American Jewish University.
Robby Moeller - Dean of Students

Dean of Students: Robby Moeller:

Robby Moeller graduated from Taylor University in 2005 with a degree in Business and is set to finish the Masters in Divinity program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2012. Robby, is a blogger and podcast host for the free-market think-tank American Enterprise Institute and their "Values and Capitalism" initiative. He is also the creator of his own website "A Voice in the Wilderness" where he discusses the intersection of faith, culture, and free market economics. He has been published in World Magazine, and has contributed to publications for other groups and websites such as The Acton Institute, Ricochet.com, and Americans For Prosperity.org. As Dean of Students at Prager University, Robby has been communicating with students and expanding PragerU's social media presence.

Prager University Advisory Board Members

Brad Anderson

Bradbury "Brad" Anderson

Bradbury "Brad" Anderson is the former CEO and Vice Chairman of consumer electronics retailer Best Buy. Raised in Sheridan, Wyoming, Anderson received an Associate of Arts from Waldorf College and a bachelor's degree from the University of Denver. He was honored with the Entrepreneurial Excellence Award by CNBC and named one of "The Best CEOs in America" by Institutional Investor Magazine. He serves on the Waldorf College Board of Regents and the Prager University Advisory Board.
B. Wayne Hughes, Jr.

B. Wayne Hughes, Jr.

B. Wayne Hughes, Jr. is a businessman and philanthropist in California. Founder of American Commercial Equities, Wayne is active in the Southern California real estate industry. He is also a rancher and farmer in Central California. Wayne hails from Southern California, and studied performing arts at USC. He is an active outdoorsman and accredited surfer. With his wife Wendy, the Hughes family supports arts and civic education through their Cantinas Ranch Foundation. They are active in the faith community and supportive of youth projects in both urban and rural California.Mr. Hughes advocates for job creation and economic growth in California, and has written and spoken out on public policy issues.
Michael Leven

Michael Leven

Mr. Leven has been the President and Chief Operating Officer of Sands Corporation since March 2009, Secretary since June 2010 and a director of the Company since August 2004. Mr. Leven served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Georgia Aquarium from September 2008 until he joined our Company in March 2009. From January 2006 through September 2008, Mr. Leven was the Vice Chairman of the Marcus Foundation, Inc., a non-profit foundation. Until July 2006, Mr. Leven was the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of U.S. Franchise Systems, Inc. Mr. Leven serves as a director emeritus of Hersha Hospitality Trust. Mr. Leven serves on many other non-profit boards.

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