Vince Brown was appointed as the Director of the Institute of Politics in May, 2020 and is an adjunct professor in Political Science at DSU.
Prior to his tenure at DSU, Vince obtained his Honors Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah. Vince went on to work for Governor Michael O. Leavitt in Utah and Senator Orrin Hatch in Washington, DC.
Vince then obtained his law degree from Cornell Law School, and worked for the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy and the Cornell Legal Information Institute. At Cornell, he re-founded the Cornell Federalist Society and served as its President for two years.
Following law school, Vince moved to California and worked as a litigation attorney for two global law firms, where he specialized in business and securities litigation. While in California, he served for ten years as an Administrative Law Judge for the County of San Diego and owned a locally sourced organic market and restaurant.
In addition to his work at DSU, Vince has a mediation business in Saint George, where he and his wife, Kathryn, currently reside with their children.
Jeremy C. Young was the second director of the Institute of Politics and Public Affairs at Dixie State University. A historian of American political culture, social movements, and emotional experience, he is the author of The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His commentary on American politics has appeared in numerous publications including the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Seattle Times, and he has been interviewed in Newsweek, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and on NPR’s The Takeaway. He earned his Ph.D. in U.S. history from Indiana University in 2013. He currently serves as the Communications and Marketing Manager at the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C.
Henrie Walton is the Assistant to the President for Government & Community Relations at Dixie State University and chair of the Institute of Politics Board of Advisors. In 2016, he became the founding director of the Institute of Politics and Public Affairs. Under his leadership, the Institute grew into a campus hub for political engagement, focusing on public forums, internships, and student leadership development. In 2019, Henrie left DSU briefly to serve as Senator Mitt Romney’s Western Utah Director. He is a native of Washington County, and attended Southern Utah University and the London School of Economics and Political Science.