Lydia Brimelow
President · Vdare Foundation
President at Vdare Foundation. Listed as an officer, director, or key employee across 2 organizations on the Form 990 record.
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Lydia Brimelow, née Sullivan, is the publisher of the white nationalist website VDARE.com and the president of the VDARE Foundation, an anti-immigration organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. A native of a Dallas, Texas suburb, she married VDARE founder Peter Brimelow in 2007 and became actively involved in the organization's business operations by 2008, assuming the presidency of the VDARE Foundation in 2020.
She has been instrumental in fundraising and managing VDARE-tied entities, including the purchase of the Berkeley Springs Castle in 2020, which serves as the organization's headquarters and event venue. Brimelow has publicly expressed views such as "diversity is weakness" and has been involved in legal disputes with the New York Attorney General regarding the foundation's financial practices.
She also serves on the board of the Bath Christmas Project and is a representative for the VDARE Foundation on the local chamber of commerce in Berkeley Springs.
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- President, VDARE Foundation (2020-present, though VDARE operations suspended July 2024)
- Publisher, VDARE.com
- Chief Advancement Officer, Treasurer, Secretary, Chief Operating Officer, VDARE (various roles, dates not specified but held at relevant times)
- Responsible for VDARE's business records on tax filings (2016-2019)
- Incorporator, BBB, LLC (July 2020)
- Head, Berkeley Castle Foundation and BBB, LLC
- Board Member, Bath Christmas Project (since 2021)
- no degree or year specified) · Loyola University Chicago (attended around 20052005
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