Dinesh D’Souza

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD – MARCH 7, 2014: Author D’Souza speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Christopher Halloran/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Dinesh Joseph D’Souza

Place of Birth: Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth: April 25, 1961

Ethnicity: Konkani [Goan Indian]

Dinesh D’Souza is an Indian-American political commentator, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist. He has co-directed and co-written the political films 2016: Obama’s America, America: Imagine the World Without Her, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, Death of a Nation, Trump Card, and 2000 Mules; and written over a dozen books. A conservative, he was a White House policy advisor in the 1980s, was president of Christian school The King’s College, and has been involved with the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution. He pled guilty to campaign finance fraud, and later received a presidential pardon.

His parents were Goan Catholics. His father was an executive at Johnson & Johnson. He came to the U.S. as a foreign exchange student in 1978, under the Rotary Youth Exchange, and went to high school in Patagonia, Arizona. Dinesh became a U.S. citizen in 1991. He is married to conservative political activist Deborah Fancher, who is from Venezuela. He has a daughter, writer Danielle D’Souza Gill, with his former wife Dixie Brubaker.