We Make Statesmen
WE MAKE
STATESMEN
Cultivating rooted leaders who integrate liberty and human dignity by choosing the Good.
The Emerging Leaders Program forms young men and women through intellectual formation, servant leadership, civic engagement, and real responsibility—preparing them to lead with clarity, conviction, and courage
We Make Statesmen
by choosing the Good.
A Vision for Leadership
The Emerging Leaders Program exists to cultivate leaders capable of reconnecting liberty and human dignity within the Western tradition.
We believe that free societies endure only when citizens possess the virtue, prudence, and moral seriousness necessary for self-government. Leadership is not merely influence or ambition—it is responsibility ordered toward the common good.
A Vision for Leadership
The Emerging Leaders Program exists to cultivate leaders capable of reconnecting liberty and human dignity within the Western tradition.
We believe that free societies endure only when citizens possess the virtue, prudence, and moral seriousness necessary for self-government. Leadership is not merely influence or ambition—it is responsibility ordered toward the common good.
Our mission is to form leaders who:
Think Deeply
Serve Faithfully
Lead Courageously
Defend Human Dignity
Strengthen Constitutional
Self-Government
Pursue Excellence Through Virtue
Our mission is to form leaders who:
Think Deeply
Serve Faithfully
Lead Courageously
Defend Human Dignity
Strengthen Constitutional
Self-Government
Pursue Excellence Through Virtue
The Crisis of Formation
Too often, internships offer little more than busywork, résumé building, or shallow professional experience.
Young people are rarely challenged intellectually, mentored personally, or entrusted with meaningful responsibility. Many graduate professionally credentialed but morally unformed—prepared for careers, yet unprepared for leadership.
The Emerging Leaders Program exists in direct response to that need.
The Crisis of Formation
Too often, internships offer little more than busywork, résumé building, or shallow professional experience.
Young people are rarely challenged intellectually, mentored personally, or entrusted with meaningful responsibility. Many graduate professionally credentialed but morally unformed—prepared for careers, yet unprepared for leadership.
The Emerging Leaders Program exists in direct response to that need.
A Different Kind of Internship
ELP is not simply a professional development program. It is a holistic formation experience.
Interns do not merely study leadership from a distance—they practice it daily through meaningful work, disciplined study, guided discussion, and service within a national civic movement.
A Different Kind of Internship
ELP is not simply a professional development program. It is a holistic formation experience.
Interns do not merely study leadership from a distance—they practice it daily through meaningful work, disciplined study, guided discussion, and service within a national civic movement.
Our experience integrates:
Intellectual Formation
Professional Development
Leadership Training
Engagement
Mentorship and Accountability
Real-world Responsibility
Our experience integrates:
Intellectual Formation
Professional Development
Leadership Training
Civic Engagement
Mentorship and Accountability
Real-world Responsibility
Program Pillars
Intellectual Formation
Through courses in Servant Leadership, Western Heritage, American Constitutionalism, and Statesmanship, interns engage the ideas, traditions, and principles that shaped the American constitutional order. Students encounter thinkers such as Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, and American statesmen including James Madison and Abraham Lincoln.
Professional Formation
Interns receive practical experience through communications, media, grassroots engagement, operations, outreach, and leadership development while working alongside professionals and mentors within Convention of States.
Civic Formation
Students are formed in the principles of constitutional self-government, civic friendship, and servant leadership through mentorship, discussion, and active participation in a national movement dedicated to preserving liberty and human dignity.
Core Values
Com Passio
Rejoicing with those who rejoice and weeping with those who weep, the practice of suffering with the Other lies at the heart of our work.
Humilitas
Having made an honest assessment of ourselves, we recognize the divine image in the heart of the Other.
ἐλπίς
Desiring everlasting Good anchors our souls in the assurance that we shall be victorious.
ἀρετή
Devoting ourselves faithfully to our duty, we are committed to the cultivation of virtue.
The Vision is Bigger Than Our Current Reach
The Emerging Leaders Program is growing rapidly, but our ability to expand remains limited by capacity and funding.
The demand for serious leadership formation is growing. The opportunity to shape the next generation of statesmen has never been greater.
The Vision is Bigger Than Our Current Reach
The Emerging Leaders Program is growing rapidly, but our ability to expand remains limited by capacity and funding.
The demand for serious leadership formation is growing. The opportunity to shape the next generation of statesmen has never been greater.
Support from donors and partners helps make possible:
Expanded Curriculum Development
Media and Video Production
National Recruiting Efforts
In-person Leadership Experiences
Intern Sponsorships
Long-term Institutional Growth
Support from donors and partners helps make possible:
Expanded Curriculum Development
Media and Video Production
National Recruiting Efforts
In-person Leadership Experiences
Intern Sponsorships
Long-term Institutional Growth
The Future Requires Formation
The leaders who preserve liberty are formed long before they hold positions of influence.
The Emerging Leaders Program exists to cultivate those leaders now.
The Future Requires Formation
The leaders who preserve liberty are formed long before they hold positions of influence.
The Emerging Leaders Program exists to cultivate those leaders now.