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Nadia Naffe is a blogger and conservative activist. She has served as Tampa editor of Red County since 2009. Naffe began her career in politics as a field director with the Republican Party of Florida. Following that assignment, Naffe was appointed to serve as a regional field director for Bush/Cheney '04. In this role, she was responsible for establishing strategic relationships among various coalitions in 12 of the most vote-rich counties in South West and Central Florida.
Prior to that, Naffe served as the founding Chairwoman, of the University of Tampa College Republicans, helping to build student chapters across the state. After the 2004 elections, Naffe returned to the private sector where she led the internet marketing division for an automotive dealership. Most recently, she was responsible for fiber-optic data sales for a Fortune 500 telecom company.

Naffe holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from the Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa. She has served as a volunteer or advisor on numerous statewide and local campaigns, dating back to Jeb Bush’s successful campaign for governor of Florida in 1999, when Naffe coordinated student volunteers to promote Bush’s “A+ Plan” education reforms and advocated state funding for charter schools