Our team

Walker Wambsganss is the Originator of the Center for Civil Expression and is a junior at the University of Oklahoma. At OU, he is both studying Finance and pursuing a Legal Studies Certificate. After his undergraduate studies, he intends on attending law school and hopes to become an attorney. 

Whenever he isn't writing for the CCE, you can find Walker spending time with friends and family, studying, practicing photography, or going to local car shows. 

Walker has experience in business law and communications, entrepreneurship and innovation, financial analysis and regulation, public relations, and corporate positioning. He is writing for CCE because he believes that “differing opinions, when expressed judiciously and after due research, are the most valuable form of discourse available.”

Jared Beardsley is a Co-Founder of the Center for Civil Expression and currently attends the University of Texas at Austin. He is pursuing a Masters in Professional Accounting with a focus on taxation, as well as a minor in Philosophy of Law. He plans on attending law school upon graduation with a current career goal of tax law, focussing on private fraud investigation. 

Whenever not writing, you can find him studying, reading, and procrastinating his next article. Jared writes for CCE because he values freedom of speech, questioning the status quo, and learning from differing opinions. He believes that “one of the most beneficial things you can do to strengthen your own opinions and worldviews is to rip them to shreds first.”

Trevor Macdonald is an Officer for the Center of Civil Expression and a student enrolled at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. He is currently studying Political Science, Philosophy, & Economics as a member of Taylor’s Honors Guild, and plans on pursuing a Masters in International Affairs after graduation. His current career goal is to join a think tank that performs research and advocacy for global, regional, or national policy. On campus, when not busy working on schoolwork, studying, or writing for the CCE, he likes to enjoy the cool Midwest weather, relax with some friends at the student center, or put on the Dallas Cowboys game.

Trevor writes for the CCE because he believes that healthy discourse is critical to a free and flourishing society, and by engaging with the opinions of others we are able to remain vigilant of and fight back against our own potential biases. He values the importance of confronting the assumptions, implications, and consequences of our beliefs so that we can strive to be philosophically consistent seekers of truth in our political, economic, and social worldviews.