Stephen Sills
Spring 2024 John Jay Fellow
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
College: Stanford University
Degree: B.A. History and Philosophy
Stephen Sills currently resides in Los Angeles, California. He also spent a number of his years growing up in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and Portland, Oregon, priding himself in having engaged with people of many different walks of life and perspectives. Growing up in a Chinese-Mexican-American home, he also speaks fluent Spanish and Mandarin while also having acquired a taste for fusion-cuisine and other curious food combos.
Stephen attended Stanford University, where he received degrees in History and Philosophy, with particular emphasis on the history of the American founding, the philosophy of law, and natural law jurisprudence. He is also interested in the proper relationship between philosophy, politics, and the exemplar statesman.
He served as President of the Stanford College Republicans intermittently from 2019 to 2022, helping to host stalwart conservatives such as Dinesh D’Souza, Ben Shapiro, Governor Scott Walker, Matt Walsh, and Vice President Mike Pence in Stanford’s leftist echo-chamber, as well as vanquishing any opposition. He has been quoted in Fox News, Breitbart, Conservative Review, Campus Reform, and College Fix, and written for the Stanford Review. He is a 2022 Hertog Political Studies Fellow, Stanford Constitutional Law Center Fellow, and 2023 Cotton Mather and Publius Fellow. Recently, he also served as a research intern for the James Wilson Institute for Natural Rights and the American Founding.
Stephen is interested in a career dedicated to public service, and towards that end continuing his studies in statesmanship in graduate studies. He also plans to attend law school and join the fight or ‘law-fare’ to restore a jurisprudence of natural law and right to America’s public square, particularly with respect to restoring marriage to its proper place in civic life and abolishing abortion nationwide. His lifelong prayer and desire is for God to fashion him into a vessel fit for advancing His great purpose of a restored world.
In his free time, Stephen enjoys reading and writing science-fiction and fantasy, plowing through biographies of the great men of ages past, hiking, star gazing, or playing tennis.