morgan ortagus wiki : Morgan Deann Ortagus (born July 10, 1982) is a policy and national security analyst based out of New York City. She often features as guest host/contributor on Fox News and Fox Business. Ortagus is currently an Executive Director in Ernst and Young (EY)'s Geostrategic Business Group and a United States Navy Reserve Officer.
Ortagus was born in 1983 to parents – Father Ronald E. Ortagus, was the owner of a franchisee of the cleanup and restoration company, Service Masters. Her mother Denise C. Ortagus was an office manager.
Morgan grew up in Polk County, Florida where she met her first husband, US Marine, Joshua Dobbs. Her full name back then was Morgan Ortagus Dobbs. This later ended in a divorce.
In May 2013, Morgan Ortagus married Jonathan Ross Weinberger (an executive vice president for Veedims, a company based in Fort Lauderdale) in a Jewish Ceremony in Georgetown.
Education : Ortagus has graduated from Florida Southern College in 2005 with a B.S. in Political Science. She later earned a Masters of Administration from the John Hopkins University in 2009.
In 2013, she completed a Masters of Business Administration from the prestigious Carey Business School – John Hopkins University.
Ortagus currently has no children.
After working on the political campaigns of Katherine Harris & KT MacFarlands, Ortagus gained experience working within the US Treasury before enlisting in the US Navy Reserve where she continues to serve since 2014.
Today, she holds a directorship at Standard Chartered Bank along with an Executive Directorship for Ernst and Young.
She is also a co-chair of the Washington based lobby group, Maverick PACS, whilst her philanthropic activities cover board positions for both the Elizabeth Dole Foundation and Friends of American University of Afghanistan.
In 2006, Morgan Ortagus worked as a press secretary for K. T. McFarland who was a United States Senate candidate at the time.
A beauty pageant regular, Ortagus won the Miss Florida Citrus contest in 2002, including 4th and 3rd runner up places in respective Miss Florida pageants, the latter earning her 3000 dollars in scholarship money.
When Morgan was 13 years old, her pageant mentor, Malina Price-Bos of Auburndale, was killed by a drunk driver. Since then she has been volunteering with DUI organizations such as ‘MADD’ Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
As of 2018, she has over 8000 Twitter followers.
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