What people don't realize is that my real government success didn't start in the US. Yes, I started in the field of politics working in the office of cousin Senator Lamar Alexander, and took graduate courses in policy. This was during the Obama healthcare legislation when Senator Alexander and Senator McCain, who went to flight school with my father, were the Senior GOP leaders analyzing the problems with the legislation. Then I worked for the World Trade Center association, working with economic development ministries from governments around the world. My real experience with government started in Scotland in 2014, and I have documented this elsewhere. Because of family connections in the small localized community of Bute Island, my opinion and insight was sought, and I worked with the incoming Sturgeon administration to address the economic issues I understood from the local community. It is because I had a front row seat to UK politics and Brexit that my classmate, Jake Sullivan, welcomed by contributions to the 2016 Clinton campaign. If you observe my Twitter account, it is set up largely with this focus on Scotland government and politics as a priority, though I have to use it for commentary on US and Georgia politics as well. My residence in Germany started in 2015, and it has positioned me as well to assist Jake Sullivan with German and European diplomacy, particularly during the Merkel transition. However, the support I have contributed to Sullivan and the Biden administration, as he knows, all stems from success with the government in Scotland, and this remains a model for success in functional government I have scaled and replicated in other cases. To help connect the dots about my areas of focus logically:
My maternal family comes from Germany, primarily Rhineland-Pfalz. My family information is here: https://www.schembs.com/
But my great-grandmother was also born in Yuest, which was part of Germany. My paternal family has been in North America since the mid 17th century, and I am a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and my family has been influential in Georgia politics for several centuries. My paternal grandfather is the Ferguson, and my ties to Scotland, and I was also raised with Scottish culture as a primary influence. I attended a top Christian prep school in Atlanta, GA, but also grew up in Gilmer County, Georgia. I attented Yale, where I have a degree in Biology, with a heavy concentration theology and religious studies, following which I worked as an editor for a medical research journal, and studied a lot of history, including Scottish history, as well as Russian and Chinese history.
