SPN 27th Annual Meeting

Shelby Emmett graduated from James Madison College at Michigan State University (GO GREEN!!) in 2006 with a dual-major in Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy and Social Relations & Policy. Shelby attended the David A. Clarke School of Law in Washington DC.    After law... Read More →

Matt re-joined the Institute for Free Speech as the organization’s Director of External Relations in July 2012 after spending time at Stateside Associates, where he gained an extensive knowledge of state legislative processes. In his capacity as Director of External Relations, Matt... Read More →

Dr. Jameson Taylor is vice president for policy at the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. Over the past 15 years, he has worked on state-level policy issues, with a focus on health care, civil liberties and good governance. He has engineered passage of numerous laws, including... Read More →

Ted Trimpa is the Principal and CEO of Trimpa Group LLC, a national political consulting and government relations firm that specializes in progressive public policy advocacy and political strategy. He is considered a key architect of the political infrastructure that facilitated the... Read More →

Amy Oliver Cooke is the Executive Vice President and Director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center for the Independence Institute, Colorado’s free market, state-based think tank. She has worked in both policy and operations since 2004.Amy began working in energy policy... Read More →