Corey DeAngelis

About

Corey DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children. He is also the executive director at the Educational Freedom Institute, a senior fellow at the Reason Foundation, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a board member at the Liberty Justice Center.

He has been labeled the “school choice evangelist” and called “the most effective school choice advocate since Milton Friedman.” He is a regular on Fox News and frequently appears in the Wall Street Journal. He is the coauthor of Mediocrity: 40 Ways Government Schools are Failing Today's Students (Libertas Press, 2023).

He was named on the Forbes “30 under 30” list for his work on education policy and received the Buckley Award from America’s Future. He additionally received the Future 40 Award from Maverick PAC and the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Citizenship Award.

DeAngelis received his PhD in education policy from the University of Arkansas. He holds a BBA and an MA in economics from the University of Texas at San Antonio.