Kevin Huffman was the winner of the America's Next Great Pundit competition, beating out 4,800 contestants to sign a three-month contract with The Washington Post. His column -- on politics, policy and culture -- appears on Fridays and he contributes regularly to PostPartisan.

Huffman is the executive vice president of public affairs at Teach For America, where he has served as a senior manager for nearly 10 years. A native of Ohio, he practiced education law in Washington D.C. and was a bilingual first grade teacher in Texas before joining Teach For America's staff.