Wisconsin U.S. Senator Ron Johnson’s former Central Regional Director and Minority

Outreach Director Camille Solberg has joined the Board of Directors of Take Back Action Fund. A Puerto Rico native and former bilingual journalist, Solberg served the Chairman’s Advisory Council for the American Latino Museum, in addition to having founded the Hispanic-American Council and served as Chair of Wisconsin Viva Bush (President George W. Bush). She organized multiple heavily-attended Hispanic events for Scott Walker’s successful gubernatorial campaigns, and previously hosted Pudner, a fellow appointee to Mitt Romney’s National Faith & Values Steering Committee, at Walker’s 50th birthday party before a Monday Night Football game in Green Bay as well as major events for Rawhide (the group formed by NFL legend Bart Starr).

Solberg served on the Governing Board of Take Back Action Fund's C3 sister organization until departing to serve in the Trump Administration in the White House and at the U.S. Agency for International Development. She also served in the Bush Administration.

The Charlotte News and Observer credited Hellwig with the defeat of heavily favored U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham (“How racy texts surfaced, upended NC's 2020 Senate race”), ultimately averting a 51-49 Democratic majority in the Senate. Hellwig has proven an unusual ability to adopt modern tactics to the conventional tasks of turnout and political engagement (such as the special events and door-to-door work he employed alongside Pudner and Lars Weichman to turn out a record 10,000+ Republican convention delegates), geofencing Trump events and leading interactive text campaigns, both in his native battleground of North Carolina and across the country. 

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Hellwig began his career in Virginia politics where, among other efforts, he worked with Pudner on the Ollie North for Senate campaign.  He then moved back to the Carolinas, where he built a real estate business while orchestrating winning political campaigns at all levels -- as he continues to do across NC from his base in Raleigh. Before taking over as Board Chair of Take Back Action Fund, he had a long and varied career as a Republican volunteer, having been elected County Chair, District Chair, and serving on the NCGOP Central Committee.

Diane has successfully navigated the crossroads of politics, public affairs, and communications over the course of her 30+ year career by remaining faithful to the concept of pragmatic politics where communication is key and getting citizens involved in the democratic process is the only way to move forward as a nation. She is a consultant to government entities, associations, non-profits, and corporations providing strategic and tactical counsel to raise awareness, enhance image, shape policy, and build market share through high-impact calculated solutions.

In the campaign space, she was a contributing architect and Senior Advisor to Lt. Governor Winsome Sears, making history in the Commonwealth of Virginia for successfully electing the first woman and first woman of color elected statewide while serving as Co-Director of Fairfax County Women for now-Governor Glenn Youngkin. Fairfax County is one of fewer than 50 counties with more than 1 million people and 35,000 more Fairfax residents voted for Youngkin than the previous Republican nominee to improve his margin by 7 percent.

She was one of the six founding members of Take Back Our Republic Action in 2015, advancing fundraising and public relations before being tapped by the Trump Administration to successfully direct the U.S. Senate confirmation process for USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue. Joining the Administration in 2017, she spent four years at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture directing U.S. Senate leadership confirmations and created the Department-wide Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement (OPPE) to strengthen agriculture and the lives of underserved and underrepresented Americans through access to programs and services. Diane also led the Office of Tribal Relations using the same communications and outreach methodologies with our nation’s 574 Federally recognized tribes.

Hilary Ryan Tucker’s thought and writing has spanned a range of conservative issues, with a particular focus on educating future generations of citizens. A graduate of Boston University, she worked behind the scenes as a speechwriter for two of the most influential conservative think-tanks in the country, the Heritage Foundation and the Acton Institute. In the early 1990s, Tucker was among the first to identify and address the Education Department’s promotion of a modern “Common Core.” Her cover story in Crisis Magazine, “Fiddling While Rome Burns,” advocating the replacement of an education secretary, was an opening shot against the undoing of William Bennett’s important work of protecting and promoting traditional Western thought in our schools. Take Back Action Fund elected Tucker, now active in the Classical Christian Education movement in the South, to its governing Board at the 2020 annual meeting.

Braynard, a frequent commentator on Fox News, Fox Business, and One America News, is the former Director of Data and Strategy for the Trump campaign, drafting and executing the strategy of targeting low-propensity voters who had a high affinity for then-candidate Trump. He is the president of Braynard Group, a political consulting firm, and the Executive Director and Founder of Look Ahead America, a patriotic voter registration nonprofit. He has worked for more than 150 federal, state and municipal candidates, including five presidential campaigns, and many national advocacy organizations and nonprofits. He previously worked on messaging and survey research for Frank Luntz, was a senior redistricting and election administration analyst at Election Data Services, and served for three election cycles in the Republican National Committee’s Political Analysis department, joining the RNC in 1996.

The Boeing Company was a Fortune 10 company during Meggan Abboud’s 17 years as a corporate executive overseeing grassroots advocacy and constituent relations. Current TBAF President John Pudner worked in her effort to facilitate constituent contacts with elected officials in 42 states to win policy legislation to support veterans, energy, the military and business. She also assigned Pudner to launch the efforts of 3-time Super Bowl Champion Riki Ellison to establish the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance and address the need to defend the US from Russian missiles.

Following her early career in Republican politics, Abboud’s 30 years of government and public affairs experience made her a proven expert in designing and executing complex issue campaigns on federal, state, and local levels, as she pioneered the use of third party advocacy on major public policy campaigns. Meggan continues to build clients’ comprehensive grassroots, grasstops and third party advocacy programs to catapult their impact in Washington, DC.  She has developed unbeatable tactics for working Congress, the White House and federal agencies, and as President of Red Reveille LLC she recently launched Vets4Vet Leadership, a 501(c)(4) to advance Veteran leadership in Congress.

Hooper, a key power player in Alabama and National politics, is named after his father, who became the state’s first elected Republican Justice and the first Republican Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court since Reconstruction.  Hooper Jr. has extended his father’s legacy with his own personal imprint. First elected to the Alabama State House in his twenties, Hooper helped guide the conservative movement to make Alabama a national example on tort reform, the creation of enterprise zones, banning partial birth abortion, and innovative paths for new business development. Beyond having a hand in most of Alabama’s conservative victories, he has wielded national influence as a six-time delegate to the Republican National Convention.

Brooks is the CEO of Avast Real Estate, an operation of hundreds of realtors that has been built with his unique method of personal coaching. As a developer, he learned to build in acres for holding ponds and other methods to save developments from flooding risk due to a lack of infrastructure planning ­-- and has also learned how to interact successfully with politicians and other influencers concerned with development. Brooks is a passionate supporter of many causes that enrich our American life, from the mission of Take Back Action Fund to local youth sports.