Michele Combs
Chairman & Founder
Michele Combs has many years of experience in Republican politics, working on many campaigns for Republican candidates on a national, state and local level. Ms. Combs was one of first conservative leaders to get involved with the issue of justice reform. She has built the Young Conservatives for Justice Reform as one of the most successful conservative justice reform groups in the country. Michele has been instrumental in making this issue a true bi partisan issue on the local, state and national level. She believes that this is one of the most important issues that is shaping the future of our country and helping Americans have a second chance in their lives.
She has spoken to hundreds of conservatives around the country on the issue and is considered one of the country’s top conservative voices on the issue.
Michele Combs began her role in politics in college and at age 21 became the State Chairman of the South Carolina Young Republicans. Michele personally oversaw the growth of her chapter to one of the most active in the country and was elected as “Young Republican of the Year” by the Young Republican National Federation.
Ms. Combs was chosen to head up the Educational Service Corp by the State Superintendent of Education, Barbara Nielson. Michele brought together corporations and children from all over the state and raised thousands of dollars to assist with vital program funding for state educational programs. Under her leadership, she also created summer programs and camps for underprivileged kids around the state.
Michele owned her own Special Events and Production company, in which she produced hundreds of corporate and political events across the country. Michele’s diverse client base included the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, BMW, World Cup of Golf, events at the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention. In addition, Ms. Combs produced events for Steve Forbes, Governor Campbell, Governor Beasley, Governor Nicki Haley, US Senator Strom Thurmond, Governor Mark Sanford, Pat Robertson and many Congressional and Senatorial events. Her company was honored to produce five major presidential inaugural events for President George W. Bush.
Michele served as Director of Special Projects for the Christian Coalition of America and was then promoted a year later to the Director of Communications. She has been quoted in major print media including the New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Times, People and Rolling Stone Magazine. She has appeared on various news networks including the Bill Moyers Show on PBS, NBC news and several other media outlets. Ms. Combs has also testified in front of Congressional committees including the Commerce Senate Committee, Energy House Committee, Judiciary House Committee, the FCC and spoke at national universities including Stanford University.
Angel Garcia
National Outreach Director
Angel grew up in Chicago, and still calls the “Windy City” home, now residing in McKinley Park. Angel first became involved with YC4JR in 2014 and quickly became the Illinois State Chairman, thanks to his charisma and passion for promoting clean energy issues.
Angel received his law degree from the John Marshall Law School, and his MBA from the Brennan School of Business. Angel began his career at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where he worked on the trading floor and later in the Market Regulation department.
Today, he runs his own law and consulting firm. As an attorney, he counsels his clients on criminal and civil matters. In addition to his legal work, Angel has been active in politics since an early age, working on various local, congressional, and gubernatorial campaigns for Republican candidates. In 2012, Angel was elected and served as a delegate for Governor Mitt Romney. Angel has frequently been seen as political commentator on various local news networks, as well as, Telemundo and Univision. We are very honored to have such a great young leader on board and we look forward to working with Angel all around the country this year.
“Our ecnomy has for the first time ever given many former prisoners the ability to get a great job and a fresh start. This second chance at life is made possible because we passed landmark criminal justice reform into law. Everybody said that criminal justice reform couldn’t be done, but I got it done and the people in this room got it done.”
"The conservative movement is now the leader on criminal justice reform”.
“Today the Senate took a great step forward in building safer communities and a brighter future for those who have served their time and are re-entering society,” Scott said. “By cutting recidivism, encouraging job training, education and mental health and substance abuse treatments for incarcerated individuals, and making our criminal justice system both smarter and tougher, we have taken a positive step forward tonight. I want to thank all of my colleagues for their hard work on this bill, and I look forward to House passage and the President enthusiastically signing the First Step Act into law.”
"Let’s start 2019 on a positive note. I’m urging Sen. McConnell to bring the bill (criminal justice reform bill) to the floor of the Senate. It would get 80 votes. Mr. President, pick up the phone and push the Republican leadership. The Republicans are the problem here, not the Democrats.”
"If we can get a vote on it, I feel very confident we can get it passed.”