SPN 27th Annual Meeting

Tim Hoefer is the Executive Director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, his work focuses on transparency, government reform and accountability. He has written several papers on those subjects, testified before local and statewide panels and authored various op-eds. His numerous... Read More →

Matt Paprocki is the executive vice president at the Illinois Policy Institute. In this role, Matt implements the organization’s mission of taking free market principals, turning them into marketable policies and passing them into laws.  

Carol has worked as an attorney, author, political and policy advisor, and media commentator. In addition to practicing law, she has served as legislative assistant to Senator Christopher S. “Kit” Bond of Missouri; as a consultant to the U.S. Senate campaigns of John D. Ashcroft... Read More →

Keli’i Akina, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, is a recognized scholar, public policy spokesman and community leader in Hawaii. In 2016, Akina was elected to statewide public office as trustee-at-large for the state Office of Hawaiian... Read More →