Women United to Save the Commonwealth

Images from the Education Summit at the Trump National Golf Course.

The Women United to Save the Commonwealth Education Summit and Afternoon Tea event at the Trump National Golf Course conveyed a unified panel message concerning the performance of the American education system.

WUSC’s next step is to build off their solution to end the Marxist ideological indoctrination in schools and reframe Education.

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Commonwealth Republican Women’s Club

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Lee Havis

Samuel Roth

Hunter Mill Republican Women’s Club

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Lance Migliaccio (The Big Mig Podcast/Videocast) 

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Joseph Stearman

Jerry Torres (Candidate for Congress - 8th Dist.)

Monique Miles


Education Summit and Afternoon Tea!

October 13th, 2024, Hosted by Women United to Save the Commonwealth and NewsTalk 105.9 WMAL

The Education Summit will open with a moderator and a panel of guest speakers discussing how to save American Education from the radical ideologies that are destroying The American Mind.  A table full of treats to eat will follow.


The American Mind


Panel of Guest Speakers

Nancy Linton

The Family Foundation

Nancy Linton is the Director of External Relations representing The Family Foundation in northern Virginia. Nancy has been active in politics in northern Virginia and the Commonwealth for the last 18 years as an education advocate, campaign manager and advisor and as a candidate for the Fairfax County School Board. During the gubernatorial election cycle, she served as a campaign surrogate for the Lieutenant Governor’s primary race. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed School Counselor. Prior to joining The Family Foundation, she was the Director of Counseling at Trinity Christian School of Fairfax, VA.

Patrick Collins

Collins Consulting

Patrick Clarence Collins was born to parents Clarence and Marva Collins. His mother, Marva, being the nationally renowned educator whose work with inner city children was made into a television movie, starring Cicely Tyson and Morgan Freeman.  Patrick obtained his BA in criminal justice from the University of Maryland.  In 1987, Collins enlisted in the United States Army, serving in the Bravo Company 2/4 Field Artillery Brigade in support of the Pershing II missile in Neu Ulm Germany.

Patrick works as a K-4th grade teacher and educational seminar creator.  Collins Consulting trains educators using research-based theory and practices that employ the Socratic Method.  He develops custom designed training based on client needs.  Collins Consulting delivers interactive workshops that provide clients with higher-level thinking lesson plans and employ a practical approach to teaching.  His workshops trained over 5,000 teachers/administrators, including some in the nation’s most challenging school districts.

Lee Havis

International Montessori Society

Lee Havis is the Founder/Director of the International Montessori Society (IMS), a non-profit organization he founded in the United States in 1979 to advance and support his innovative discoveries and research in the field of scientific education. He also created and conducted an in-home tutoring program, Trust Tutoring, which utilizes unique evaluation testing.

Lee Havis is the author of The Technology of Scientific Education. In this text, Havis finally solves the mystery of scientific education that led Dr. Maria Montessori to discover the young child’s true nature in 1907.

Stacy Langton

MamaGrizzly.org & Stay-at-Home Mom

Stacy Langton is the stay-at-home mom of six children and military wife in Fairfax, VA who exposed pornographic and sexually explicit books found in her son’s public school library. Her school board meeting appearance in September 2021 went viral and helped elect Glenn Youngkin as the 74th Governor of Virginia.

Stacy was called a "domestic terrorist" and labeled with a threat tag by AG Merrick Garland's Department of Justice and her story was profiled in Dinesh D'Souza's 2023 film "Police State." Stacy continues her fight against porn in schools and the gender ideology used to indoctrinate our nation's children. She has appeared as a guest speaker at CPAC and in various media including Newsmax, Fox News, WMAL-DC, Frank Speech, the Washington Post and Epoch Times.

Melanie Kriewaldt

Women United to Save the Commonwealth / GW Bridge Academy

Melanie Kriewaldt-Roth currently serves as VP of Education Policy at Women United to Save the Commonwealth and is building support for the restructuring of American education policy to better serve students, parents and teachers.. WUSC supports the eradication of Marxist indoctrination and the fostering of an American Renaissance.

After the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, Melanie shepherded through the School Marshal Bill at the Texas Legislature. She then taught, as a Texas certified teacher, in a public, charter, and private school at the high school level for 10 years, In 2017, she mentored students to testify at the capitol for the successful passage of the Convention of States resolution in Texas.  Melanie has authored three civics curriculum courses now being taught to private and homeschool students online at GW Bridge Academy. The job title she is most proud to hold is “Mom.”

Lori Furstenberg

DC Conservative Caucus

Lori Furstenberg serves as the Chair of the DC Conservative Caucus, the inaugural chapter of The Conservative Caucus in Washington, DC. She has been at the forefront of promoting  policies that uphold conservative values, foster economic growth, and strengthen our  communities and families.

Lori grew up in Colorado and earned her Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communications, along with advanced education in Political Science and Public Policy, from the University of Colorado Denver. She has been an active volunteer, lending her skills to organizations such as the United Nations and the Human Trafficking Awareness Task Force.  In her free time, she enjoys the company of her son Cameron and dog Jackson, working out, action movies, bat watching, and reading.

Debra Tisler

Educator/Parent/Advocate

Debra Tisler is an educator, parent and tireless advocate, having stated that “Education is the key that unlocks the doors to opportunity and success,”

Tisler holds a Bachelor of Arts in History with a certification in General Education, as well as a Master of Science in Education with a concentration in Special Education. She witnessed firsthand what works and doesn’t work, from the classroom to central office, how both students and teachers get lost and/or forgotten in the system, how money and talent is wasted, and how leaders aren’t nurtured.

Tisler research can be summed in her statement that “the majority of parents want their kids able to read, write, and do math, and to access a rigorous curriculum.” (Fairfax Republicans, 7-9-23)

Lin-Dai Kendall

Small Business Owner/Fulbright Scholar

Lin-Dai Kendall, a Honduran native who lives in Fairfax Station with her husband of 18 years, has four children, all of whom attend Robinson High School. 

A Fulbright Scholar and small business owner, she has spent more than 15 years in architecture, urban planning and civil/public sector projects. Lin-Dai developed and managed my own architectural design studio from 2005 to 2013 handling both administrative and technical demands of design-build.

She came to the U.S. after completing her Fulbright scholarship. Most recently, she has operated her own design studio out of Fairfax Station, where she designs and manages residential renovations.  Kendall is fluent in Spanish.

Ivan Raiklin

Constitutional Attorney/Former Green Beret

Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Ivan E. Raiklin, former Green Beret and Constitutional Attorney served 25 years in the DOD, Intel and Special Operations Communities and DTRA. 

Ivan Raiklin's children Tim and Greg went to Fairfax public schools during the Plandemic, but after 3 weeks of studying the Covid Con he realized it was all predicated on lies and manufactured fear.  When schools opened back up his boys Tim and Greg were the only ones that did not participate in the face toilet pageantry. 

After Gov. Youngkin's Executive Order making child asphyxiation devices optional, his boys were placed in detention. After winning against the tyrants, he pulled both his children from the public school system to guarantee he was able to raise God-fearing men, rather than mentally confused self-mutilators.  His kids now attend a private Christian school, and are competitive swimmers, medaling in Divisionals in the Northern Virginia Swim League. Tim is on a Top 25 Varsity Soccer team as a freshman in high school! 

Dolores Reyes

Political Activist/Real Estate Investor

Dolores Reyes is a Political Activist, Media Surrogate, Real Estate Investor, Entrepreneur, Media Host, Speaker, International Host and a Conservative.

Dolores is an elected official and member of the Montgomery County Republican Party Central Committee. She is a member of the Maryland Federation of Republican Women and is the Founder of Voices of Black Conservative Women.

Dolores is active in the Trump 2024 campaign, helping to mobilize the Get-Out-the-Vote in Maryland and Virginia. She has also provided black female voter strategies.

Dolores has a BA in Communications and MA in Marketing and Business Administration at the University of Dayton and studied law at California School of Law.

the road to results…

Step 1. Identify the Problem

Join a Virginia Area Discussion

Step 2. Create a Solution

Attend the Virginia Education Summit

Step 3. Ensure the Results

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