KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Major General Clifford Stanley
SPECTRUM OF ENGAGEMENT: VETERAN EXTREMISM TO VET THE VOTE
David Oh
Glenn Schatz
Larry Rosenberg
Maura “Mo” Gillen
Rev. Dr. Paul V. McCullough III
SERVICE MEMBERS, VETERANS, AND RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM
Paul Murray
Nate Walker
Simran Stuelpnagel
Teal K. Ellington
Major General Clifford Stanley
SECRETARY STANLEY, a retired United States Marine Corps infantry officer, served 33 years in uniform, retiring as a Major General. His last position was as the Deputy Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, Virginia. Additionally, he served as the Marine Corps Principal Representative to the Joint Requirements Board which supported the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in carrying out his responsibilities.
Stanley’s military honors include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal (2 awards), the Navy Commendation Medal, and the Navy Achievement Medal. His civilian awards include receiving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (N.A.A.C.P.) Meritorious Service Award, the N.A.A.C.P. Roy Wilkins Award, and the American Legion Award for Inspirational Leadership.
Dr. Stanley and his wife, Rosalyn Hill Stanley, have one daughter, Dr. Angela Yvonne Stanley, Commander, U.S. Navy (Retired).
David Oh
Councilman DAVID OH is in his third term of serving on City Council. He is the Chairman of Council’s Committee on Global Opportunities and the Creative/Innovative Economy. He has the distinction of being the first Asian American elected to political office in Philadelphia and is also the only military veteran currently serving on City Council. He was born and raised in Philadelphia, the son of the founder of Philadelphia’s first Korean-American church. After graduating from law school, he worked as a Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney. He later resigned to serve in the U.S. Army from 1989 to 1992. Upon being released with an Honorable Discharge and returning to Philadelphia, David managed a solo law practice in Southwest Philadelphia for 18 years and then, in 2008, merged it into a larger firm.
David served on the several boards including The Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, Monte Jade Science and Technology Assn.: Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Friends of the Korean War Memorial at Penn’s Landing, Community College of Philadelphia, Mayor’s Commission on Literacy, Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission, Educational Nominating Panel, Walnut Street Theater, WYBE Public Television, Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition, and Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Hahnemann University), among others. He is a member of the American Legion Rhawnhurst-Castor Post 754 and an associate member of the US Army Special Forces Association.
David and his wife, Heesun, have four children, Hannah, Joshua, Daniel, and Sarah. They live in Southwest Philadelphia on the same block where David has lived since 1963.
Maura “Mo” Gillen
MAURA O’BRIEN served more than 27 years on active duty, retiring in October of 2013. After initial assignments she began a journey into the recruiting business with service as Commander of the Houston West Recruiting Company. After earning an MBA from the University of Houston, she served as Chief of Admission Marketing at West Point. From there, she moved to the headquarters of the U.S. Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Fort Monroe, Virginia, serving for two years in Marketing and Public Affairs, then two years as Chief of a newly-created Recruiting and Retention Branch. Mo had additional assignments as Chief of Officer Programs, and then as Executive Officer, of the Strategic Outreach Directorate of the U.S. Army Accessions Command, at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
In 2008, Mo deployed to Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as shift chief for the Media Operations Center, Multi-National Force –Iraq, and acting spokesperson. Back in the U.S., Mo served for a short time on the Joint Communications staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. Her last major assignment was as Professor of Military Science and head of the Army ROTC program at Drexel University. Upon her retirement, Mo joined the Veterans Multi-Service Center as Deputy Executive Director. Mo continues her service to the community in a number of roles including serving on executive boards, volunteering for the National Alliance for Mental Illness and as a poll worker.
Lieutenant Colonel Maura A. “Mo” Gillen is married to former Army Major Henry S. Gillen IV. They have three children and one grandchild, live in Haverford, and are both active with their church.
She has received several awards including, the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and Meritorious Service Medal among others.
Glenn Schatz
GLENN SCHATZ is Vice President of Veterans for Responsible Leadership (VFRL) and a founding member of We the Veterans (WtV). Through VFRL and WtV, Glenn has been working on defending the rule of law, electing candidates who exemplify America’s founding ideals, and combating veteran extremism.
In his professional life, Glenn is Vice President, Community Partnerships at Care Access, a company working to engage every healthcare professional in clinical research and to make clinical trials a care option for every patient.
Prior to joining Care Access, Glenn was Chief Revenue Officer at BlocPower, a smart buildings platform, and held various senior-level positions at Link Labs. Before Link Labs, Glenn worked at the U.S. Department of Energy. Earlier, he co-founded Energy Conversion Research (ECoRE) Ventures and was an adjunct professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. Glenn started his career as an officer in the Navy, where he worked as an engineer-qualified nuclear submarine officer on a guided missile submarine, where he served as Quality Assurance Officer, in addition to his core duties managing nuclear and non-nuclear mechanics.
Glenn received his master’s degree in national security policy from Georgetown University and his bachelor’s degree from The United States Naval Academy. Glenn resides in Baltimore with his spouse and two young children.
Rev. Dr. Paul V. McCullough III
Veteran, leader, and innovator, REV. DR. PAUL V. MCCULLOUGH III (LTC, Retired) has built up a wealth of experience over his two decades of logistics management.During the last three years, Paul has been Chief of Staff for both Taking the Hill, LLC and Conaton Strategies, LLC. He is also a Leadership Advisor on the Colonel’s Leadership Council and serves as the President of the Penn & Franklin Chapter of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA). Paul was recently appointed to serve as an Army Reserve Ambassador.
While his leadership in the private sector is impressive on its own, Paul cut his teeth through logistics and budget management at the Department of Defense, and as a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army. Paul also serves as the host of a weekly radio show broadcast and podcast called Serving Our Nation.
Paul centers his work around the ideals of service and faith. He volunteers his time to his church as well as organizations around the country, currently serving as PA Chair for the Military Families and Veterans Council of the Democratic National Committee(DNC) and a National Ambassador for the Travis Manion Foundation (TMF). In addition, Paul serves as an Adjunct Professor for Drexel University. Faith guides Paul in many areas of his life. He currently serves as a Senior Field Manager, within the Armed Services Ministry of the American Bible Society. At his church, Paul plays an active role in the Next Steps, Prayer, and Growth Track teams and participates in the church’s Life Groups as leader, coach, and blog writer.
Paul currently lives in Williamstown, New Jersey with his beautiful wife of 24 years, Heather, and two amazing kids, Paul IV and Sarah.
Larry Rosenberg
LARRY ROSENBERG is a trial, appellate and Supreme Court litigator at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., who specializes in constitutional, regulatory, IP, antitrust and fiduciary duty litigation. He is very active in the ABA Section of Litigation, having served on its governing Council and chaired its trial and appellate practice committees and its Book Board. He directs the West Virginia University College of Law Supreme Court Clinic and is an author of A Practitioner’s Guide to Appellate Advocacy, The Trial Lawyer’s Guide to Success and Happiness and the forthcoming Winning Bench Trials.
This term, Larry argued in and won a 9-0 decision from the United States Supreme Court. Larry is lead counsel for a law firm that specializes in defense industry regulatory work in a First Amendment challenge to the State Department. He is lead counsel for Chevron in a breach of contract lawsuit against the government, in which the U.S. Court of Federal Claims recently awarded Chevron almost $19 million, including a sanction against the government for bad-faith litigation conduct. He also has represented Bayer for almost 15 years in antitrust litigation regarding a settlement of patent litigation over the drug Cipro and several other matters. As part of his pro bono practice, Larry won a victory in the Supreme Court for a refugee from Cameroon seeking asylum, and he was court-appointed appellate counsel for Adham Hassoun, who was convicted of terrorism-related charges involving Jose Padilla.
Dr. Paul Murray
BISHOP DR. PAUL MURRAY serves as Vice President of Religious Freedom Initiatives with the Global Peace Foundation International.A passionate advocate for religious freedom and human rights, Murray is a regular presenter on international program panels and a conference speaker addressing religious freedom attacks and challenges internationally,along with religious liberty violations domestically. As Dr. Murray operates within this religious freedom space, he serves as Vice Chairman of the International Religious Freedom Secretariat(IRFSec); member of the National Advisory Board of the National Committee for Religious Freedom(NCRF); Board Member of the First Amendment Voice Alliance(FAV); Member of the Committee on Religious Liberty; and Co-Chair, Capital Area Coalition on Religious Liberty.
In addition, serving in Christian leadership for more than 25 years, Dr. Murray is the senior pastor of The Lighthouse Church. He is the award-winning author of Broken: Picking up the Pieces after the Fall and soon to be published, First to Serve. A prolific speaker, Murray has ministered on TBN, Daystar, CTN and also profiled on the cover and feature article with BOSS Magazine. Murray holds a Doctorate in Pastoral Leadership from Howard University,School of Divinity, a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Counseling, and a Master of Art in Religion from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Services from the University of Phoenix.
Nate Walker
REVEREND DR. NATHAN C. WALKER is a First Amendment and human rights educator. Nate is president of 1791 Delegates, a public charity named after the year the Bill of Rights was ratified. In this capacity, he manages The Foundation for Religious Literacy and founded ReligionAndPublicLife.org, a social learning community and mobile app. In addition to serving as the associate editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal, Religion & Education, he has published five books, including, The First Amendment and State Bans on Teachers’ Religious Garb (Routledge 2019), which Kirkus Reviews called “a thorough, magisterial account of a timely and historically important legal debate.”
He previously served as a resident fellow in law and religion at Harvard University. He received his Doctor of Education degree in First Amendment law from Columbia University, where he received his Master of Arts and Master of Education degrees. Reverend Nate is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and received his Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary. Since 2014, he’s been serving as the affiliated community minister for religion and public life at the Church of the Larger Fellowship.
Simran Stuelpnagel
SIMRAN STUELPNAGEL fights for freedom of speech, religion and conscience around the world. He is the Chairman of Sikh FoRB and a Vice Chairman of the IRF Secretariat, a Senior Fellow at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute in DCand a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
Simran recently received a commendation for extreme bravery from the Deputy Commander of the British Field Army for his activities on the ground in Odessa, Ukraine. In 2021, US National Stop the Violence Alliance honored him as an Outstanding Man because of his dedication to peace, charity, love, compassion, diversity, family, nonviolence and unity.
Previously, Simran was Senior VP at Akal Global, the largest privately held security firm supporting the US government with 15,000 employees, and the youngest VP in the company‘s 35-year history. He sits on over a dozen boards, advising organizations on a broad spectrum of management and conscience issues. Simran lives in Santa Fe, NM with his two daughters.
Teal K. Ellington
TEAL K. ELLINGTON retired from the United States Army Reserves in February 2003, after completing 20 years of service. She completed two military campaigns while serving in the military; all tours where stateside: Desert Storm 1991, Ft Dix, New Jersey,99 days tour and Operation Noble Eagle, Ft Leonard Wood, Missouri, October 2001-October 2002.Teal was recently assigned Adjutant General for National Muslim American Veterans Association.
Teal graduated from Central State University, in Wilberforce, Ohio, where she received a Bachelor’s of Arts in Political Science, in 1983. She made her pilgrimage to Hajj in 2011. She focuses on helping our communities on feeding, Community Service Programs, teaching Masjid Muhammad of Philadelphia New Sisters Shahadah Classes, computer classes for youths and seniors. She is a member of variety of organizations that support women in shelters. A member of Masjid Muhammad of Philadelphia and the Education Coordinator, one of the founders of the first Federal Muslim Employees Organization at Internal Revenue Service. Presenting holding positions in the following organizations: MAVA, Vice President of The International League of Muslim Women, Philadelphia Chapter; and Secretary of New Africa Society International 7 Organization.