Hank Aldag, MGR Communications Coordinator

Hank Aldag, is designated as statewide communications coordinator for Maryland Grassroots Republicans (MGR). In this capacity, he will aid the state volunteer coordinator, Lee Havis, in the vital work of maintaining good communication among the various coordinators assigned in each local jurisdiction in the state. A senior policy advisory with the US Department of State, he resides in Prince George's County where he has been active in the grassroots organization in Maryland supporting the candidacy of Ted Cruz for President.

A business graduate from the University of Maryland, Hank is employed as senior policy advisor with the US Department of State, specializing in real estate procurement, which has taken him on important missions throughout the world. He and his wife Tanya, also promote the showing of photographs taken by Vitas Luckus, a Lithuanian native renowned for his photography of ordinary life throughout the old Soviet Union, beginning in the 1960's. Tanya, the widow of Luckus on his death in 1987, escaped from her home country of Lithuania to the United States in 1991, taking with her many Luckus photos taken during his travels, which often involved dodging repression, censorship, and harassment from the secret police. Through Tanya, Hank has an especially keen concern for the value of freedom, and the importance of open, citizen-focused self-government, which is the hallmark purpose and function of the MGR.