Ying Ma

In the 2020 election, Ying Ma served as the communications director of the NO on Prop 16 Campaign, which defeated an attempt to reinstate race-based affirmative action in California by a resounding 57 to 43 percent margin. In the 2016 presidential election, Ms. Ma served as deputy director of the Committee for American Sovereignty, a super PAC formed to support the candidacy of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States. During the 2016 GOP primaries, she served as deputy policy director and deputy communications director for the Ben Carson presidential campaign. Previously, Ms. Ma was a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, a premier conservative think tank and practiced law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. From 2007 to 2012, Ms. Ma was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ma legally immigrated to the United States from Communist China at age ten. She received a B.A. in Government, magna cum laude, from Cornell University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.