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Executive Vice President, Independence Institute

President, National School Choice Week

Director of Program Development, Bill of Rights Institute

President, A.C. Fitzgerald and Associates, LLC

Director of Talent Development, Charles Koch Institute

President , Case Consulting Services

Director of Research, State Data Lab at the Institute for Truth in Accounting

Writer, Breitbart.com

Director of Federal and State Campaigns, FreedomWorks

Director of Government Reform, Illinois Policy Institute

Director,  Coalition Relations, Heritage Foundation

Principal and Owner, Oberg Research

Senior Vice President for Communications, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Fellow, Spark Freedom

Vice President of Policy, Foundation for Government Accountability

Vice President, Spark Freedom

Executive Director, Talent Market

Director of Production, Freedom Foundation

Interactive Media Director, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

Vice President for Strategic Partnerships, State Policy Network

Director of External Affairs, American Enterprise Institute

David Nott is president of Reason Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to "advancing free minds and free markets." Under Nott's leadership, Reason's public policy experts have advised President George W. Bush, Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jeb Bush, and numerous other officials on how to shrink the burden of government. Reason, a monthly magazine of political and cultural commentary, was named one of the "50 Best Magazines" by the Chicago Tribune and is described as "a kick-ass, no-holds-barred political magazine" by the New York Post. As president of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University for six years, Nott developed a business plan that led to a 250 percent increase in revenue. He also spearheaded the construction of Mercatus’ new Capitol Hill Campus. Nott has written on privatization for the Institute of Economic Affairs, lectured to federal judges on the need for drug policy reform, and written commentary for many publications... Read more

Community Liaison, Commonwealth Foundation

Deneen Borelli is a host on CRTV.com, an on-demand subscription-based video programming website. She is a contributor with Fox News and appears regularly on “Hannity,” “Fox & Friends,” “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” and “America’s Newsroom.” She has also appeared on Fox Business programs “Making Money with Charles Payne,” “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” and “Risk & Reward with Deirdre Bolton.”  Deneen has also appeared on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC and C-SPAN and is an official guest host with SiriusXM Patriot Satellite Radio. She is the author of Blacklash: How Obama and the... Read more

Operations & Evaluation Specialist, State Policy Network

(Moderator): President, Intellectual Takeout

Arrowhead3 Consulting, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota 

Vice President, State Data Lab at the Institute for Truth in Accounting

President, HR Catalyst, Inc.

President and CEO, Stuart Consulting Group, Inc.

CEO, Heart+Mind Strategies

President, Media Trackers

CEO, eResources

Editor-in-Chief, RedState.com

Vice President, Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity

Director of Development, Pioneer Institute

Director of Labor Policy, Mackinac Center for Public Policy

Executive Director, Yankee Institute

Editor, Red Alert Politics

Owner and Founder, Crossfit, INC.

President, Americans for Tax Reform

Director of Investigations, American Phoenix Foundation

Director of National Research Initiative, American Enterprise Institute

Kathleen Hartnett White joined the Texas Public Policy Foundation in January 2008. She is a Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment.

Prior to joining the Foundation, White served a six-year term as Chairman and Commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). With regulatory jurisdiction over air quality, water quality, water rights & utilities, storage and disposal of waste, TCEQ’s staff of 3,000, annual budget of over $600 million, and 16 regional offices make it the second largest environmental regula

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Project Manager, Manhattan Institute

President, Arthur N. Rupe Foundation

Director of Outreach, John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy

(Moderator): Executive Vice President, State Policy Network

President, Yescalis Campaign Strategies

Marketing Director, Freethink Media

President, Joe Trippi & Associates

Vice President for Communications, Institute for Justice

Director, Communications and Technology Task Force, American Legislative Exchange Council

President, Independence Institute

Education Director, Goldwater Institute

Fiscal Policy Director, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

CEO, American Phoenix Foundation

President & CEO, Beacon Center of Tennessee

Communications Director, American Legislative Exchange Council

(Moderator): Director of Coalitions, State Policy Network

Director, The Herald Group, LLC

President, ArrowHead3 Consulting

Leadership and Development Specialist, State Policy Network

Executive Vice President, Illinois Policy Institute

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Leslie Graves is the founder and Publisher of Ballotpedia. She is also President of the Lucy Burns Institute and a member of the board of the Acton Institute. Ms. Graves’s career in digital media and civic activism has spanned several decades, and includes building the foundation for the term-limits and libertarian movements as well as numerous grassroots ballot initiatives.
She has contributed academic scholarship in various publications and was active in the development of Rachel’s Vineyard, a nonprofit ministry. Leslie earned her Bachelor of Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis... Read more

CEO, Ceterus Inc.

President, National Tax-Limitation Committee

Vice President, Communications & Marketing, Manhattan Institute

Director of Center for Effective Justice, Texas Public Policy Foundation

Senior Policy Advisor, Right On Crime

Senior Director of Government Affairs, Illinois Policy Institute

Director of Strategic Communications, State Policy Network

Director, Center for State & Local Leadership, Manhattan Institute

President, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

Director of Communications, Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity

Digital & Communication Strategy, Online Fundraising & Advocacy Campaigns, Security, Business Planning & Process, Websites

President & CEO, Bernard Center for Women, Politics & Public Policy

Executive Vice President, A.C. Fitzgerald and Associates, LLC

President, SparkFreedom

Senior Legal Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation

Senior Advisor for Entitlement Reform and Budget Policy, National Tax-Limitation Foundation.

(Moderator): Author

(Moderator): Coalitions Coordinator, State Policy Network

State Data Lab

Director of Communications, State Data Lab

President & CEO, The Lowman Group, LLC

Director, Health and Human Services Task Force, American Legislative Exchange Council

Senior Associate, ClearWord Communications Group

President, Advocates for Self-Government

Executive Vice President, Goldwater Institute

Chairman, Terra Staffing Group

President & CEO, Foundation for Government Accountability

(Moderator):

Director of Center for Higher Education, Texas Public Policy Foundation

President, Bill of Rights Institute

President, State Policy Network

Code Genius, Spark Freedom

Director of Conservative Coalitions and State Outreach, U.S. House Republican Study Committee