FreedomFest 2019

Nick Gillespie is an editor at large of Reason, a two-time finalist for National Magazine Awards, and the co-author, with Matt Welch, of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America. Follow him on Twitter at @nickgillespie and on I... 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 →

Gloria Z. Greenfield is Honorary Artist in Residence at the University of Tennessee/Knoxville, where she has joint appointments in Cinema Studies and the School of Journalism and Electronic Media. She brings over 30 years of strategic planning, marketing, and management experience... Read More →

George Gilder is an American investor, writer, economist, techno-utopian advocate, Republican Party activist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. His 1981 international bestseller Wealth and Poverty advanced a practical and moral case for supply-side economics and capitalism... Read More →

Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan’s request. ATR works to limit the size and cost of government and opposes higher taxes at the federal, state, and local levels. It supports tax reform... Read More →

Ilya Shapiro is director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. He co-authored Religious Liberties for Corporations? Hobby Lobby, the Affordable Care Act, and the Constitution, and edited 11 volumes of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Shapiro... Read More →