Russ Duerstine is the executive director of Concerned Veterans for America and a veteran of the United States Air Force. Russ is a Columbus, Ohio native who served in the Air Force from 1982-1988. He served as a mainframe computer maintenance specialist, reaching the rank of Staff Sargent. He was awarded an Air Force Commendation… Read more »
John Byrnes is the deputy director for Concerned Veterans for America and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and Army National Guard.
Darin Selnick is a senior advisor to Concerned Veterans for America and served as Executive Director of its Fixing Veterans Health Care Bipartisan Taskforce. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force. In 2018 and 2019, Selnick was a senior advisor to the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. His major responsibility… Read more »
Herb Ford is general counsel for Concerned Veterans for America and a veteran of the United States Army. Herb received an active duty commission as a Second Lieutenant through the Army’s Reserve Officer Training Corps program after graduating from Arkansas Tech University but deferred his active duty to attend the University of Tulsa College of… Read more »
Tyler Koteskey is policy director for Concerned Veterans for America. He was a Fall 2020 Marcellus Policy Fellow with the John Quincy Adams Society, where his research focused on Naval spending priorities to facilitate a grand strategy of offshore balancing. Prior to joining AFP and CVA, Tyler was as a policy analyst at the Reason… Read more »
Kyle Buckles is marketing manager for Concerned Veterans for America and a veteran of the United States Air Force. After some thought and consideration of his life’s direction, and searching for some needed discipline, Kyle enlisted in the Air Force as a Cryptologic Linguist while in college. His service would train him in Russian and… Read more »
Sarah Shriver Smothers is the communications director for Concerned Veterans for America and handles communications responsibilities for the Stand Together community’s foreign policy portfolio. She has a decade of diverse public relations experience in many industries including hospitality, lifestyle, politics, and grassroots activism. Sarah first joined Concerned Veterans for America in 2015 where she served… Read more »
