Katherine Albrecht

Dr. Katherine Albrecht is a political commentator whose views have been featured in over 2,000 radio, television, and print news stories. Ms. Albrecht has hosted a daily syndicated radio show called "Uncovering the Truth with Katherine Albrecht” since 2007.  Among other books, Ms. Albrecht authored "Spychips: How major corporations and government plan to track your every move with RFID."

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For media inquires, please email Dr. Katherine Albrecht at kma@spychips.com.

Tags: consumer privacy, RFID 

Dr. Annelise Anderson

Dr. Annelise Anderson is an economist who has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1983. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of RAND's Center for the Study of Immigration Policy, a member of Governor Wilson's Council of Economic Advisers, and a member of the Governor's Task Force on California Tax Reform and Reduction. She has advised the governments of Russia, and Romania, and the Republic of Georgia on economic reform.  Dr. Anderson was a senior policy adviser to the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan and worked on staffing the departments of Treasury, Transportation, and Commerce during the transition to the first Reagan administration. As a member of the faculty of the School of Business and Economics, California State University, Hayward (1975-80), Anderson taught courses in macroeconomics, corporate financial policy, investments, and capital markets and financial institutions in the MBA and undergraduate program.

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To schedule a media interview contact Dr. Anderson at andrsn@hoover.stanford.edu

Tags: economics, housing, immigration

Kate Baker

Kate Baker works in New Hampshire towards systemic education reform, supporting homeschoolers and school choice. She assists parent groups in creating innovative education solutions for families and is an interactive teacher and speaker in the areas of organizational leadership, education reform, issue advocacy and coalition building. Kate is a member of the Board of Directors of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire and is a founder of The Scholars' Academy, Women for Ron Paul, Polaris Charter School, The Greater Manchester Alliance for the Gifted and The Academy for Science and Design Educational Foundation.

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Kate may be contacted for an interview by emailing her at bakerkatiej@gmail.com

Tags: education, school choice, homeschooling

Caroline Baum

Caroline Baum is a Massachusetts-based writer who has had a Friday column in Bloomberg View since 1998. In 2004 and 2005 Baum received first-place National Headliner Awards in the wire service/commentary category. From 2002 to 2003, Baum hosted the weekend radio talk show "No Nonsense" on Bloomberg Radio. Before coming to Bloomberg News, she was a columnist for Dow Jones, and has been writing about the economy and the bond market since 1987. 

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For media inquires, please contact Caroline at cabaum@bloomberg.net

Tags: economics, public policy

Blayne Bennett

Blayne Bennett is a recent graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in finance. Blayne does communications for Students for Liberty and more recently started Women for Liberty, an organization that helps to create a community for liberty-minded women to connect. She has also been involved with the Network for Enlightened Women and the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.  

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For media inquiries, please email Blayne at BBennett@StudentsForLiberty.org

Tags: finance, capitalism

Michelle Bernard

Michelle D. Bernard is the chairman, founder, president and CEO of the Bernard Center for Women, Politics & Public Policy and is an MSNBC political analyst.  Ms. Bernard has spoken before numerous organizations and founded the Independent Women’s Forum’s Iraqi Women’s Democracy Initiative.  Ms. Bernard is the former president and CEO of the Independent Women’s Forum.  Ms. Bernard holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and political science from Howard University and a Juris Doctor degree from The Georgetown University Law Center.

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For media inquires, please contact Michelle at info@bernardcenter.org or 301-299-4092

Tags: law, public policy, free markets, women’s issues

Catherine Bleish

Catherine Bleish is the founder and former executive director of the Liberty Restoration Project, an organization that holds educational rallies and workshops, lobbies in Kansas City and at the state level in Missouri, and works to cultivate local leaders. She currently runs a project called "Operation Defuse" that seeks to increase public awareness about the threat posed by the "fusion centers" installed around the country by the Department of Homeland Security. 

Watch Catherine speak here at an “End the Fed” rally.

Catherine may be contacted for an interview by email at cat.bleish@gmail.com

Tags: Agorism, Federal Reserve

Sue Blevins

Sue A. Blevins is the founder of the Institute for Health Freedom and served as IHF's president from 1996 to 2010. A former Registered Nurse, Ms. Blevins developed her insights into the American and Canadian health care systems through years of hands-on experience in both of those countries. Ms. Blevins has appeared on television and radio shows across the country to discuss health freedom issues and wrote the book Medicare's Midlife Crisis. Her articles about health freedom have appeared in major newspapers such as the Investor's Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Times. Also, leading free-market think tanks have published her research, including the Cato Institute and the National Center for Policy Analysis.

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For media inquires, please contact Sue at 651-646-8935

Tags: health care

Romina Boccia

Romina Boccia is the assistant director at the Heritage Foundation Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies. She is lead author of two of Heritage's most visual and popular data reports: Federal Budget in Pictures and Federal Spending by the Numbers. Romina's research has been published and quoted in The Atlantic, The Washington Times, and The Washington Examiner. She's a frequent guest on talk radio and appears regularly on Bloomberg and Fox News. In 2013, Romina was listed in the Independent Women's Forum list of women who should run for office. Romina holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a Master of Arts degree in economics from George Mason University. She is a founding member and vice president of her local "Liberty Toastmasters" group.

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Email Romina to inquire about media events at rominaboccia@gmail.com.

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Tags: Federal spending, economics, Social Security, retirement, pensions

Julie Borowski

Julie Borowski is a policy analyst at FreedomWorks. She first joined FreedomWorks as an economic research and policy intern in Spring 2010. Upon graduating Magna Cum Laude from Frostburg State University, she returned to FreedomWorks. Previously, she was selected to be a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow with the Institute for Humane Studies where she interned at the Center for Competitive Politics. Most recently, she was a government affairs associate at Americans for Tax Reform.

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To inquire about media events please contact Julie at 202.783.3870

Tags: Austrian economics, tax reform, school choice, government affairs

Barbara Branden

Barbara Branden is a writer and lecturer.  She was Ayn Rand's intimate friend and colleague for eighteen years, the managing editor of The Objectivist, a philosophical journal, and executive vice-president of the Nathaniel Branden Institute in New York. At NBI, she conceived and presented a popular course on the nature of efficient thinking. In 1986, Doubleday published her best-selling and critically acclaimed biography, The Passion of Ayn Rand. This biography has spawned two adaptations: a Showtime television movie, written by Howard Korder; and a stage version, written by Julian Barry, to be presented in London by Sir Peter Hall, former head of the British National Theatre.  Learn more at barbarabranden.com. 

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Barbara can be reached for media interviews by e-mail at BBranden1@aol.com.

Tags: objectivism, Ayn Rand

Hon. Janice Rogers Brown

Judge Brown was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in June 2005. Judge Brown served as a deputy in the Office of Legislative Counsel for the State of California, as a deputy attorney general in the California Attorney General’s Office, and as Deputy Secretary and General Counsel for California’s Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.  

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For media inquires, please contact the Judge Brown at (202) 216-7220

Tags: law, free speech

Tammy Bruce

Tammy Bruce is a radio talk show host, New York Times bestselling author, blogger, Fox News political contributor and contributor at The Guardian newspaper.  The “Tammy Bruce Show” premiered in 1993 in Los Angeles and was nationally syndicated in 2005, enjoying over 200 terrestrial affiliates. In 2009, Ms. Bruce took her radio show independent, making it an exclusively available online and via podcast. 

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Follow on Twitter @HeyTammyBruce

For media inquires, please email Tammy at contacttsl@gmail.com or call 800-449-8255

Tags: feminism, gay rights, pro-choice, gun rights

Jennifer Burns

Dr. Jennifer Burns is assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on American political, cultural, and intellectual history. Professor Burns is the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, an intellectual biography of the controversial novelist and philosopher. Based on exclusive access to Rand’s personal papers, Goddess of the Market is the only book to draw upon Rand’s unedited letters and journals. It has been favorably reviewed by numerous publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Economist, and the New Yorker.

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To inquire about a speaking engagement, please contact jenniferburns@virginia.edu

Tags: history, philosophy, Ayn Rand

Marie Cocco

Marie Cocco is a writer who was among one of the first journalists to report the emergence of a business-backed movement to privatize Social Security.  Stories that Cocco has broken include the secret detention and relocation of Italian-Americans during World War II and the federal government’s record as the nation’s most prolific polluter. Her 1990 series on the government’s pollution record, written with Newsday reporter Earl Lane, was honored by the National Press Club, the White House Correspondents’ Association and Sigma Delta Chi, the National Society of Professional Journalists. 

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For media inquires, please contact Marie at mariecocco@washpost.com

Tags: Social Security, health care, government pollution

Karen De Coster 

Karen De Coster is a CPA and a writer for a variety of publications and organizations including including LewRockwell.com, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Taki's Magazine, Euro Pacific Capital, and the Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute. Her website is karendecoster.com.

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For media inquires, please contact Karen at rothbardiancpa@yahoo.com

Follow Karen on Twitter @karendecoster

Tags: Austrian economics, accounting, food freedom

Kathryn DeLong

Introducing Kathryn M. DeLong, student of political science at SUNY Buffalo and the past president of her school's College Republican Club. Kathryn’s writings have been published in Human Events and she is an active blogger at http://kathryndelong.blogspot.com/.

Check out Kathryn’s YouTube Channel, “KathrynDeLong”

For more information and media events please contact Kathryn at kmdelong@buffalo.edu 

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Tags: students, gun rights

Angela Dills

Angela Dills is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Providence College.  Dills' research has appeared in Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Health Economics, the Economics of Education Review, Education Economics, the American Law and Economic Review, Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, Economic Letters, Eastern Economic Journal, and Education Finance and Policy.  She earned her BA in Economics and Spanish at the University of Virginia and her M.A. and PhD in Economics from Boston University. 

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For more information and to contact Angela, please visit http://www.angeladills.com/ or call the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University at (703)993-4880

Tags: education, economics of crime

Michelle Fields

Michelle Fields recently joined PJ Media's new network, Next Generation, with Congressman Allen West as a host and correspondent. She was formerly a reporter for the Daily Caller and a regular guest on Fox News. Michelle was president of her Students for Liberty chapter at Pepperdine University and formerly worked with Students for Liberty and the Independent Women’s Forum.

Follow Michelle on Twitter @MichelleFields

Watch Michelle speak here.

For media inquires contact Michelle at michelle@dailycaller.com. 

Tags: public policy, activism

Christine Hall

Christine Hall is the director of communications at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Prior to joining CEI, Ms. Hall was a reporter with CNS News, where she focused on economic and political reporting. Ms. Hall also served as a policy analyst for Steve Forbes's 2000 presidential campaign, a social security policy analyst for former Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), and editor of the Seniors Coalition Advocate magazine. 

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For media inquires, please email Christine at chall@cei.org

Tags:  technology, economics

JULIE GUNLOCK 

Title: Director of the Women for Food Freedom & Culture of Alarmism projects at the Independent Women's Forum
Location: Washington, D.C. 
Background: Julie Gunlock is the Director of IWF’s Women for Food Freedom and the Culture of Alarmism projects and also serves as a Senior Fellow covering food regulations and culture issues.  Before joining the IWF, Gunlock served as a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and on the House Homeland Security Committee, and on the staffs of Ohio Senators Mike DeWine and George Voinovich. Gunlock has written about food and culture for the New York Post, the Washington Post, New York Daily News, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Times, National Review Magazine, National Interest Magazine, the Tampa Tribune, and Townhall.com and is a regular contributor to National Review Online.  She has offered political commentary on Fox Business Network and is a regular guest on national radio programs such as the Sean Hannity Show.  She lives in Virginia with her husband and three young and active boys.

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Watch Julie speaking here.

For speaking and/or media inquires, please contact Victoria Coley at victoria.coley@iwf.org 

Tags: Culture of Alarmism (Obesity, Chemical, Agriculture, Environmental and Energy), Food freedom, food regulations, food nannies 

Lynn Harper

Lynn Harper is the host of her own cable television show and radio talk show on WHO AM, one of the largest stations in the Midwest. Lynn has been published in the New York Times and is a regular host for special features on CNN.  Lynn has worked in politics and started has had experience working for and starting many different companies.  Learn more at www.lynnharper.com.

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Contact Lynn at messageforlynn@aol.com

Tags: Business development

Sharon Harris

Sharon Harris is the President of the Advocates for Self-Government.  Sharon previously worked as a freelance writer, managing editor of the Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, and as a team-building consultant for businesses and organizations.

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For media inquires contact Sharon at sharon@TheAdvocates.org

Tags: self-government

HADLEY HEATH 

Title: Senior Policy Analyst at the Independent Women's Forum
Location: Washington, D.C.
Background: Hadley Heath is a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forumspecializing in health care, entitlements, economics,  fiscal and public policy. Hadley appears frequently in print, broadcast, and radio outlets across the country, and her work has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, POLITICO, Roll Call, Real Clear Policy, The Tampa Tribune, National Review Online, Daily Caller and Townhall.com.  She also manages IWF's Health Care Lawsuits website.  She regularly represents IWF in coalition meetings and conferences in D.C. and across the U.S. Prior to joining IWF, Hadley studied economic development and globalization with the School of International Training in Santiago, Chile.  She graduated with distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar with a bachelor's degree in economics and journalism. 

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Watch Hadley speaking here.

For speaking and/or media inquires, please contact Victoria Coley at victoria.coley@iwf.org

Tags: Health Care, public policy, ObamaCare, budget and taxes, Women's issues (wage gap, work life balance, Paycheck Fairness Act, Lilly Ledbetter Act, FMLA, VAWA, Title IX) 

Malou Innocent

Malou Innocent is a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.  Malou has appeared as a guest analyst on CNN, BBC News, Fox News Channel, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, CNBC Asia, and Reuters. Innocent has published reviews and articles on national security and international affairs in journals such as Survival, Congressional Quarterly, and Harvard International Review. She has also written for Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal Asia, Christian Science Monitor, Armed Forces Journal, the Guardian, Huffington Post, the Washington Times, and other outlets both in the United States and overseas.

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To book a speaking engagement with Malou, please call 202-789-5226 or email minnocent@cato.org

Tags: foreign policy, Afghanistan, Pakistan,

Sallie James

Dr. Sallie James is a policy analyst with the Cato Institute.  James writes and speaks on a variety of trade topics, with a research emphasis on the subject of agricultural trade policy. Before joining Cato in 2006, James was an executive officer in the Office of Trade Negotiations in the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, working on industrials market access negotiations. Prior to that she was a Senior Policy Adviser in the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Her articles have been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County Register, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and other American newspapers as well as the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the European Review of Agricultural Economics. James has appeared on BBC World, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, Bloomberg TV, NPR, and other TV and radio outlets. 

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To book a speaking engagement, please call Sallie at 202-789-5226 or e-mail sjames@cato.org

Tags: economics, trade, agriculture



Angela Keaton

Angela Keaton is director of development at Antiwar.com, the web's leading source of antiwar news, views, and activities and the producer of the Scott Horton Show for Antiwar Radio. She has served on the Libertarian National Committee and as executive director of the Libertarian Party of California. From 1999 to 2005, Angela hosted "The Liberated Space," the libertarian talk and news show on the controversial KOOP 91.7 FM, Austin. She holds a J.D. and M.A. from the University of Florida. She is currently the national secretary for Outright Libertarians and serves as the Chair of LOLA’s Board of Directors.

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Follow on Twitter @antiwar2

To schedule a media interview with Angela, please call (510) 217-8665

Tags: anti-war

Katie Kieffer

Introducing Katie Kieffer, who graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Philosophy. Katie works in commercial real estate and blogs regularly at Townhall.com and on her website, KatieKieffer.com.

Check out Katie’s YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/KatieKieffer

For more information and media inquires, please contact Katie through http://katiekieffer.com/.

Follow her on Twitter @KatieLKieffer

Tags: public policy, green building, real estate

Rikki Klieman

Television anchor, legal analyst, trial attorney, actor and best-selling author, Rikki Klieman has earned a sterling reputation as one of the nation’s most celebrated lawyers and legal authorities.  An anchor at the Courtroom Television Network (now Tru TV “In Session”) from 1994-2009 who has also been a Legal Analyst for the CBS Early Show, the NBC Today Show and the E! Network, Rikki continues to inspire the lives of others with her autobiography, “Fairy Tales Can Come True – How a Driven Woman Changed Her Destiny,” which reached the L.A. Times Best Seller List. She was named one of the five most outstanding women trial lawyers in the country by TIME magazine. Ms. Klieman served on the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Supreme Court on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Board of Visitors for Boston University School of Law. She currently serves on the Council of 100, a mentoring organization of outstanding alumnae for the benefit of collegiate women and young graduates at Northwestern University.

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To contact Rikki please contact her publicist, Suzanne Wickham, at 310-228-6280

Tags: court tv

Bonnie Kristian

Meet Bonnie Kristian, a Washington, D.C.-based writer, editor, and the Director of Communications for Young Americans for Liberty (YAL).  Her writings have appeared in YAL’s quarterly publication, Young American Revolution and she blogs regularly at bonniekristian.com.  

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Tags: anti-war, public policy

Karen Kwiatkowski

Karen U. Kwiatkowski a current candidate for U.S. Congress in Virginia’s 6th district. She is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is primarily known for essays she wrote while working at the Pentagon, in which she denounces the corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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Tags: veteran’s affairs, foreign policy

Donna Matias

Dr. Donna G. Matias is an adjunct professor and director of the Entrepreneurship Clinic, which Professor Matias helped found in Fall 2001. Professor Matias is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, and left private practice to become a public interest lawyer with the Institute for Justice in Washington, DC, where she litigated constitutional cases against federal, state and local entities nationwide. While at IJ, Professor Matias appeared on television and in the op-ed pages of various news organizations, where she discussed issues relating to her cases.

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For media inquires, please contact Donna dmatias@SanDiego.edu or call (619) 260-7470

Tags: constitutional law, entrepreneurship, state’s rights

Deirdre McCloskey

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For more information and to contact Deirdre, please email her at deirdre2@uic.edu or call 312-435-1479

Tags: economics, feminism, law, history, ethics

Darcy Olsen

 Darcy Olsen is the president and CEO of the Goldwater Institute, a think-tank and litigation center located in Arizona. Under Olsen’s leadership, the Goldwater Institute has acted as a policy architect for successful state level reforms, including school choice laws, initiatives to protect private property, and tax cuts.  Olsen was previously the director of education policy at the Cato Institute, and has served as a transitional house manager for the D.C. Coalition for the Homeless.  She also serves on the Board of Directors for Independent Newspapers and newszap.com.

Watch Darcy speak here and visit the YouTube channel of the Goldwater Institute.

To schedule a media interview please contact Greg Brooks at gbrooks@goldwaterinstitute.org or 602-462-5000 ext. 242.

Tags: public policy, property rights, education

Sally Pipes

Sally C. Pipes is the president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979.  In November 2010, she was named the Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies.  Prior to becoming president of PRI in 1991, she was assistant director of the Fraser Institute, based in Vancouver, Canada.  She writes a weekly health care column “Piping Up” for Forbes.com.

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Contact Sally for media interviews at spipes@pacificresearch.org

Tags: health care

Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel is an author, columnist, and speaker. She serves on the board of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and has been a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Forbes and its companion technology magazine Forbes ASAP. Her work was featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004. From July 1989 to January 2000, Postrel was the editor of Reason magazine. Under her leadership, Reason was selected as a finalist for the National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest honor, for essays in 1993 and public interest journalism in 1996 and in 1998, when Reason had two finalist articles.

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For media inquires, please contact Virginia at vp@dynamist.com

Tags: health care reform, education

Sharon Presley

Dr. Sharon Presley is a longtime activist and writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the co-founder of Laissez Faire Books, the world’s largest libertarian bookstore. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Resources for Independent Thinking and the Executive Director of the Association of Libertarian Feminists. Her written works include Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre (as co-editor) and Standing Up to Experts and Authorities: How to Avoid Being Intimidated, Manipulated and Abused, as well as articles in Reason, Liberty, The Freethinker and Inquiry. She is a social psychologist whose specialties are obedience and resistance to authority and gender research. She is currently editing a libertarian feminist anthology titled The Free Woman: Individualist Libertarian Perspectives on Women and the Family.

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To reach Dr. Presley, please email her at sharonpresley@sharonpresley.com

For media inquires contact Sharon at sharonpresley@sharonpresley.com or 925-228-0565

Tags: feminism, gender research, women’s history, activism

Shelly Roche

 Shelly Roche is an activist, podcaster and computer programmer. Shelly is co-founder and CTO at Vayable, an organization that helps to create unique travel experiences.  She is also the founder of Wordchuck and a regular guest on Freedom Watch on Fox Business News.

Watch Shelly speak on her YouTube channel, “AmericanFreeMedia.”

Follow Shelly on Twitter @shellyroche

For media inquiries, email Shelly at shellyroche@gmail.com

Tags: health freedom

Veronique de Rugy

Dr. Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She was previously a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, and directed academic programs for the Institute for Humane Studies-Europe in France.

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For media inquires. please contact Veronique at vderugy@gmu.edu  or (703) 993-4930

Tags: economics, tax reform, federal budget, foreign policy, financial privacy

Mary Ruwart 

Dr. Mary J. Ruwart is a research scientist and libertarian activist. She was a leading candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nomination and is the author of the award-winning international bestseller "Healing Our World." Ruwart holds an undergraduate degree in biochemistry, and a graduate degree in biophysics from Michigan State University. After a brief term as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at St. Louis University Medical School, Ruwart spent 19 years as a pharmaceutical research scientist for Upjohn Pharmaceuticals, and has written extensively on the subjects of government regulation of the drug industry.

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For media inquires, please contact Mary at MJRuwart@Ruwart.com

Tags: health care, pharmaceutical industry

Hon. Lynn Scarlett

P. Lynn Scarlett was the Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 2005 to 2009, having previously served as the Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget from 2001 to 2005. While at DOI, she chaired the federal Wildland Fire Leadership Council, the Climate Change Task Force, and co-chaired the First Lady's Preserve America Initiative on historic preservation. Before joining the administration, Scarlett was president of the Reason Foundation. She is now a Visiting Scholar at Resources for the Future. In 2009 she served as a member of the national Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests. She serves on the boards of the American Hiking Society, RESOLVE, the Continental Divide Trail Alliance, and Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara, and is a trustee emeritus of the Udall Foundation. 

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For media inquires, please contact Lynn at (202) 224-4971

Tags: conservation, climate change, environmental entrepreneurship

SABRINA SCHAEFFER 

Title: Executive Director of the Independent Women's Forum & Co-author of Liberty is No War on Women
Location: Washington, D.C.
Background: Sabrina L. Schaeffer is the executive director of the Independent Women's Forum. She was the the managing partner of Evolving Strategies, served as the speechwriter for Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, the Director of Media Relations and Public Affairs at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington, DC, where she frequently served as a spokeswoman for the organization, and a member of the communications team for Bob McEwen's campaign in Ohio's second district. As a director at the White House Writers Group, Sabrina worked extensively on designing and orchestrating projects for a range of intellectual, government, and corporate clients on issues including energy policy, transportation policy, and telecommunication deregulation. While working for the White House Writers Group, she also acted as a liaison at the U.S. Department of Labor, where she helped launch "The Skilled Trades Initiative." Sabrina began her career in Washington as an assistant to former United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick at the American Enterprise Institute. She has commented on politics and political culture in publications such as Forbes, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Times, Foxnews.com, Philanthropy Magazine, National Review Online, Doublethink, Policy Review, Tech Central Station, and American Enterprise Online as well as on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel and radio stations across the country. Sabrina received her M.A. in Politics from the University of Virginia, where she focused on media effects and political behavior. Sabrina also earned an M.A. in American History also at UVA.

Watch Sabrina's media appearances here. 

Watch Sabrina speaking at Cato, Federalist Society, CWA, and IWF's Women in the Wilderness event. 

For speaking and/or media inquires, please contact Victoria Coley at victoria.coley@iwf.org

Tags: Women's issues (wage gap, work life balance, Paycheck Fairness Act, Lilly Ledbetter Act, FMLA, VAWA, Title IX), economics, energy, public policy 

Carrie Ann Sitren

Carrie Ann Sitren is an attorney for the Goldwater Institute's Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation. Prior to joining the Goldwater Institute, Sitren worked as a law clerk with the Institute for Justice Arizona Chapter, and interned with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Neal Boortz Show.

Watch Carrie Ann speak here and visit the YouTube channel of the Goldwater Institute.

To schedule a media interview please contact Greg Brooks at gbrooks@goldwaterinstitute.org or  (602) 462-5000 x 242.

Tags: constitutional litigation, school choice, property rights

Lisa Snell

Lisa Snell is the director of education and child welfare at the Reason Foundation.  Snell has frequently testified before the California State Legislature and numerous other state legislatures and government agencies. Her writing has also appeared in Education Week, Edutopia, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. Ms. Snell is also an advisory board member to the National Quality Improvement Center for the Children’s Bureau; is on the charter school accreditation team for the American Academy for Liberal Education; and serves as a board member for the California Virtual Academy. Before joining Reason Foundation, Snell taught public speaking and argumentation courses at California State University, Fullerton. 

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For media inquires, please contact Lisa at lisa.snell@reason.org

Tags: education, school violence, child advocacy, pre-K programs

Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers is a American author and former philosophy professor who is known for her critique of late 20th century feminism, and her writings about feminism in contemporary American culture. Her most widely discussed books are Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women and The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men.

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For media inquiries, please email Christina at csommers@aei.org or call 202-862-7180

Tags: individualist, feminism

Amy Sturgis

Dr. Amy H. Sturgis is an author, speaker and scholar of science fiction/fantasy studies and Native American studies. She earned her Ph.D. in intellectual history from Vanderbilt University, serves on the scholarly board of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research and the advisory board of Mythopoeic Press, and contributes to the Hugo Award winning StarShipSofa podcast and the Liberty and Power group weblog.

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For more information and to contact Amy, visit www.amyhsturgis.com.

Tags: Native American history, media studies

Abigail Thernstrom

 Abigail Thernstrom is a former a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York and the vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She also serves on the board of advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and was a member of the Massachusetts state Board of Education for eleven years. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Government, Harvard University, in 1975. She is also a recipient of the prestigious 2007 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement. She serves on several boards, including the Center for Equal Opportunity and the Institute for Justice. 

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For media inquires, please contact Abigail at (212) 599-7000

Tags:  election reform, civil rights

Christina Tobin

Christina Tobin is the founder and chair of The Free and Equal Elections Foundation, president and CEO of Free and Equal Inc., and vice president of Taxpayers United of America. Tobin serves on the boards of Californians for Electoral Reform (CfER) and the Coalition for Free and Open Elections.

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For media inquiries, please call (415) 599-5222.

 Tags:  election reform, tax reform

Kelly Vlahos

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer, longtime political reporter for FoxNews.com, and a contributing editor at The American Conservative. She is also a columnist at anti-war.com and a member of the board of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance.

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To schedule a media interview contact Kelly through her website at www.kelleyvlahos.com 

Follow her on Twitter @KelleyBVlahos

Tags: foreign policy

EMILY WISMER

Title: Policy Analyst
Location: Washington, D.C.
Background: Emily is a Policy Analyst for the Independent Women's Forum, where she specializes in energy, regulation, the economy, government budgeting, poverty reduction and international issues. Prior to joining IWF, Emily worked as Legislative Researcher for Public Notice and on the Bankrupting America campaign. Her strategy, forward thinking, creativity, and policy work contributed towards effective policy marketing, polling, messaging, and the creation of unique policy education products like short films, infographics, policy events, billboards, fact sheets, blogs and briefing books. Emily began her career in the United States Senate. In the office of Senator John Cornyn, she focused on budgetary, banking, fiscal, economic, financial, educational and family issues. Emily graduated from Texas A&M University with a dual degree in Communications and Political Science. During her time in school, she studied at Shanghai International Studies University and worked for the Republican Party of Texas.

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For speaking and/or media inquires, please contact Victoria Coley at victoria.coley@iwf.org

Tags: Energy policy, fiscal and economic policy, the (real) War on Women 

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