Dr. Charmaine Yoest is a Vice President of the Heritage Foundation, where she leads the Institute for Family, Community and Opportunity. This includes work on domestic policy issues including health care and welfare reform, education policy, family formation, women’s issues and religious liberty. She previously served in the Trump Administration in the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services, serving in many facets of political life - in the White House, on a presidential campaign, and leading a national nonprofit. She is a speaker, a published author, and has providing testimony in front of the United States Congress on multiple occasions. Charmaine and her husband are the parents of five children. Their oldest three children have been Division One athletes and include an NCAA champion, four-time ACC champion and a CAA champion. Their son is an Army Officer and Blackhawk Pilot.