Audrey Unverferth graduated summa cum laude from the University of Chicago in 2022 with degrees in Russian and East European Studies (with Honors) and Law, Letters, and Society. Her senior thesis, titled “Guilty Innocents’ Useful Performance as Debt Collection in Stalin’s 1936 Moscow Show Trial,” engaged with primary sources to examine the false confessions of guilt delivered by the first three defendants in Joseph Stalin’s 1936 Zinoviev-Kamenev trial. Upon graduation, Unverferth was awarded the University of Chicago Slavic Languages and Literatures’ Anna Lisa Crone prize for the “most accomplished major graduating in Russian literature and culture.” 

While on campus, Unverferth served as the cofounder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Thinker — the United States’s leading conservative student-run newspaper. During her time as editor-in-chief, the Thinker earned media in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Fox News. More recently, Unverferth served as the Communications Manager at UATX (now the University of Austin). Unverferth’s commentary has been featured by Tucker Carlson Tonight, The Federalist, The Ingraham Angle, Sky News, Newsmax, and The European Conservative.