Julie Gunlock is a senior fellow at Independent Women’s Forum and leads the organization’s Culture of Alarmism Project. She is the author of the book From Cupcakes to Chemicals: How the Culture of Alarmism Makes Us Afraid of Everything and How to Fight Back.

Before joining IWF, Gunlock served as a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and on the House Homeland Security Committee, and on the staffs of Ohio Senators Mike DeWine, George Voinovich, and Tom Coburn. Gunlock has written about food, nutrition, science, parenting and culture for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Times, National Review Magazine, National Interest Magazine, the Tampa Tribune, and Townhall.com and is a regular contributor to National Review Online, BlogHer, Acculturated, The Federalist, and the Huffington Post. She has offered political commentary on Fox News, CNN, PBS and other networks and is a regular guest on local, regional and national radio programs.

She lives in Virginia with her husband and three loud, active, and perpetually hungry boys.