Conner Drigotas

Staff Columnist

Conner Drigotas is a Staff Columnist for 71 Republic writing on civil liberties, criminal justice, and Libertarian Party politics. Conner co-founded Inside Investigator, a nonprofit investigative journalism outlet, and served as its managing editor. He was previously director of communications and development at the Fairness Center, a nonprofit public-interest law firm. Conner taught business communications as an adjunct professor at Lehigh University, managed local, state, and federal political campaigns, and worked in finance. A native of Maine and the author of Work for Liberty, he earned his MBA from Lehigh University and undergraduate degrees in government & law and psychology from Lafayette College. His writing also appeared at Free the People, The Liberty Block, and The Maine Wire, and he was a columnist for Advocates for Self-Government.