Brad Tidwell is currently a New Media Specialist at RaiseDigital, a wholly owned subsidiary of HSP Direct. As a New Media Specialist, Brad designs, develops and deploys online solutions for conservative candidates and non-profit organizations.

Brad has worked as a Campus Services Coordinator at the Leadership Institute for colleges in the Mid-Atlantic region. As Campus Services Coordinator, he managed field representatives, directed Leadership Institute resources to conservative organizations, and coordinated activism events across the United States with other regional coordinators.

Brad graduated Tulane University shortly before joining the Leadership Institute in August 2009. Brad took classes at American University over the summer, completing his Bachelor’s of Political Science a year early. The preceding fall, Brad was a student at American University's Washington Semester Program.

During Fall 2008, Brad worked as an intern in the eCampaign division of the RNC under the leadership of Cyrus Krohn. There, he worked on developing conservative grassroots networking, web application creation and GOP website maintenance functions.

At the Washington Semester Program, Brad wrote a research paper about social networking titled "Successful Online Campaigning: A Focus on the 2008 Presidential Campaign". This paper was awarded a Pollie Award for Best Use of Social Networking by the American Association of Political Consultants. The paper discussed the evolution of social media in presidential campaigns since 1996, and the most effective strategies employed in each case.

Brad has also worked for Entracity Inc. as a contributing editor for PreciseNews.us, a news aggregation website which provides access to original, unique breaking news stories from around the internet every few minutes.

Specialties:

Political website management, platform and coalition building, political junkie.