Hello everyone. My name is Matt Thacker. I am 34 years-old, and live in Perrysburg with my wife–who is in law school at UT–and my beautiful 3 year-old daughter. I am majoring in journalism and minoring in political science here at BGSU.

I spent most of my adult life playing bass and singing harmony in a bluegrass band. We traveled all over the United States playing and even went overseas to play a few times.

At age 31, I became a father and decided that the best way to demonstrate the importance of education to my daughter, was to go back to school and become educated myself. I have followed politics all of my adult life, and would like to, one day, make a difference in some way by working in that field.

Since April, I have been writing an Op/Ed column for the BG News, which focuses mainly on politics and social issues. My ultimate goal is to either write a nationally syndicated Op/Ed column, or to be a political consaultant/speech writer.