Morton C. Blackwell is an American conservative activist. He is the founder and president of the Leadership Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational foundation that teaches political technology to conservative activists. He currently serves as Virginia's national committeeman on the Republican National Committee.

The College Republican National Committee (CRNC) is a national organization for College Republicans—college and university students who support the Republican Party of the United States. The organization is known as an active recruiting tool for the party and has produced many prominent Republican and conservative activists and introduced more party members to the Republican Party than any other organization in the nation.