Bio, via Office of U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch:

Freire joins Hatch’s staff after two years of serving as Communications Director and Speechwriter for U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo of the 4th District of Kansas. He previously worked as a Senior Communications Strategist in crisis communications, campaigns, and corporate defense for New Media Strategies following nearly eight years as an award-winning conservative journalist, including turns as Associate Editorial Page Editor at the Washington Examiner, Managing Editor at the American Spectator, and Researcher/Writer at the New York Times. In 2009 he was honored as CPAC’s Journalist of the Year. Freire holds a B.A. in English from Cornell University, where he also served as senior editor of the Cornell Review.