Cameron Sholty

Cameron Sholty is the executive director of Heartland Impact. He is also government relations director at The Heartland Institute.

Cameron brought with him to Heartland more than 15 years of experience in politics, public policy, and communications. In every role of his career, Sholty has worked to advance free-market ideas and the cause of individual liberty.

Sholty is the former communications director for the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, the Wisconsin’s largest litigation and public policy research organization. As communications director, he helped craft public messaging for groundbreaking litigation wins, such as Marquette University professor John McAdams’ free-speech case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He also developed communication strategies to preserve and expand Wisconsin’s historic school choice programs and to advance other state-based solutions to public policy challenges.