Kyle Wingfield
President and CEO
Kyle Wingfield is a native of Dalton and graduate of the University of Georgia. He joined the Foundation as president and CEO in April 2018 after spending nine years as an opinion columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has also worked for the Wall Street Journal, based in Brussels, Belgium, from 2004 to 2009, and for the Associated Press, based in Atlanta and Montgomery, Ala., from 2001 to 2004.
At the AJC, Kyle wrote often about state politics and policy, focusing especially on education and school choice, transportation, health care, and state and local taxation. He is a frequent guest on GPB’s “Political Rewind” show and was a finalist for the Reason Foundation’s Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2013. Kyle’s weekly column continues to appear in 10 newspapers around the state.
Kyle received the UGA Grady College’s John E. Drewry Young Alumnus Award in 2006, was named to the UGA Alumni Association’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2012 and is a member of UGA’s Board of Visitors. He is a member of Leadership Georgia’s Class of 2018 and, as an Eagle Scout, remains an active volunteer in Scouting.
Work History
Alma Mater

Taxpayer-funded benefits should be for those that are supposed to receive them

What Stetson Bennett can teach us about humility

Who will emerge as Georgia’s school choice champion?

Kemp’s re-election, historic tax relief highlight 2022

Accelerate Georgia’s tax cuts

What does 2022 tell us about future elections in Georgia?

Is Inequality Really As Bad As the Statistics Say?

The Impact of Fees on Georgia’s Housing Supply

Gaining Perspective, Giving Thanks
