Which individuals serve on turning point usa’s national board of directors and advisory boards in 2025?
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Executive summary
Turning Point USA’s publicly posted governance materials in 2025 identify a small core board that includes longtime insiders and a broader set of high-profile conservative figures on honorary and advisory lists, while recent reporting documents a leadership transition to Erika Kirk as CEO and chair following Charlie Kirk’s death; available public pages are incomplete or inconsistent about the full advisory roster [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. This report compiles named individuals found in TPUSA’s governance/team pages and contemporary press, and explains where the public record is silent or contradictory [1] [6].
1. Who TPUSA lists as its national board of directors in 2025
TPUSA’s governance page names a board of directors that, as captured in the organization’s published materials, includes Charlie Kirk alongside David Engelhardt, Doug DeGroote, Mike Miller and Tom Sodeika, a listing that appears on TPUSA’s own governance page [1]. Multiple contemporary news outlets reported that, after Charlie Kirk’s death in September 2025, the board unanimously elevated Erika Kirk to CEO and board chair — a change confirmed in reporting from People, Newsweek, Fox News and USA Today [2] [3] [4] [7]. The governance page snippet provided still shows Charlie Kirk listed among directors, indicating either an archival capture or lag in online updates [1].
2. Honorary board and named conservative figures associated with TPUSA
TPUSA’s governance materials list an “Honorary Board” containing several nationally known conservative personalities, including Ambassador Richard A. Grenell, Col. Allen West, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Eric Bolling, Senator Jim DeMint, Michele Bachmann, Mike Lindell and Sara Carter, reflecting a pattern of aligning with prominent media and political conservatives to bolster the organization’s profile [1]. Those names appear on TPUSA’s governance page as honorary or advisory affiliates rather than necessarily voting directors, a distinction relevant to understanding influence versus formal governance [1].
3. Advisory council—what’s public, and what isn’t
TPUSA’s governance section references an Advisory Council but the scraped snippets and site pages provided do not list a full, current advisory roster in the supplied material, so the complete membership of that advisory body in 2025 cannot be confirmed from the sources at hand [1]. Press coverage on the leadership transition cites the board’s unanimous vote and names several board members who will serve under Erika Kirk, but does not publish a comprehensive advisory-council roll; therefore the public record in these sources is incomplete on advisory-board membership [2] [3].
4. Discrepancies, timing and transparency concerns
Public materials present timing and listing inconsistencies: TPUSA’s team/governance pages simultaneously show Charlie Kirk as a director while multiple outlets document Erika Kirk’s election as CEO and chair after Charlie’s September 2025 death, suggesting the organization’s web pages may not have been fully updated at the time of these captures or that archival snapshots were used [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. The governance page’s inclusion of high-profile honorary figures underscores TPUSA’s strategy of public-facing alliances, but it also highlights a gap between named spokespersons/advisors and the narrower set of formal corporate directors — a distinction the organization’s public pages do not always clearly explain [1] [8].
5. What this reporting does not establish
The available sources do not provide a complete, dated roster of every member of TPUSA’s advisory council or distinguish clearly between voting board members, honorary board members, and advisory council members for the entirety of 2025; accordingly, any claim purporting to list every individual serving on TPUSA’s national advisory boards that year cannot be fully substantiated from the documents reviewed here [1]. Independent filings such as IRS Form 990s or an updated official governance page would be needed to definitively enumerate all board and advisory members and their roles [9].