Landry Ayres is Creative Director at ISMA and Managing Editor/Senior Producer at The UnPopulist. Landry previously served as a Program Coorindator at the Institute of International Education for the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program, and as Senior Producer at the Cato Institute, where he produced the podcasts "Free Thoughts," "Building Tomorrow," "Power Problems," "Portraits of Liberty," "Pop & Locke," "The Liberty Exchange," and more.

He received his B.A. in Media Production and Criticism and M.A. in Communication from George Mason University, where he was a coach for the nationally ranked Speech Team. A native Texan, he now lives in Helsinki, Finland.