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This event is part of YAF's Free Enterprise Lecture Series.
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Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who has become a leading voice for freedom around the world. In her viral talks, viewed hundreds of millions of times, Park urges young people to recognize—and resist—the true oppression that exists in North Korea and around the world in communist and socialist countries. Park is the author of While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America, published in 2023.
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Young America’s Foundation is the leading organization for young conservatives. With more than 60 years of history and contacts on more than 2,000 campuses, we help students like you find support, promote your conservative views, and take action. Get involved with YAF today:
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Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who has become a leading voice for freedom around the world. In her viral talks, viewed hundreds of millions of times, Park urges young people to recognize—and resist—the true oppression that exists in North Korea and around the world in communist and socialist countries. Park is the author of While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America, published in 2023.
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Young America’s Foundation is the leading organization for young conservatives. With more than 60 years of history and contacts on more than 2,000 campuses, we help students like you find support, promote your conservative views, and take action. Get involved with YAF today:
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This Young America’s Foundation event is part of the Logan Family Lecture Series.
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Michael Knowles is the celebrated host of “The Michael Knowles Show” at the Daily Wire and “The Book Club” at PragerU. He is also the author of the best-selling book “Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds”
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This Young America’s Foundation event is part of the Irving Brown Lecture Series.
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Young America’s Foundation is the leading organization for young conservatives. With more than 60 years of history and contacts on more than 2,000 campuses, we help students like you find support, promote your conservative views and take action. Get involved with YAF today:
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Born in North Korea, human rights activist and YAF Speaker Yeonmi Park grew up in a punishing society devoted to the worship of Kim Jong-Il. But at the age of 13, she and her family made a daring escape to China in search of a life free of tyranny. In her viral talks, Park urges audiences to recognize—and resist—the oppression that exists in North Korea, and around the world.
Growing up in Hyesan, North Korea, it was normal for Park to see dead bodies as she walked to school, and to be so hungry that she ate wild plants. After watching a pirated copy of Titanic, the veil of tyranny began to fall. Having caught a glimpse of a free world, Park realized that her experience of life wasn’t the only one—and that she might one day find a way out. An insightful and candid speaker, Park is fast becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. The BBC named Park one of their “Top 100 Global Women.”
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John Tamny is president of the Parkview Institute and editor of RealClearMarkets. He is the author of several books, including Popular Economics, Who Needs the Fed?, The End of Work, They’re Both Wrong, and his latest, When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason.
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Anne Rathbone Bradley is the George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and the vice president of academic affairs at The Fund for American Studies (TFAS), through which she teaches at George Mason University. Dr. Bradley works to enhance the impact and reach of TFAS and Foundation for Teaching Economics education programs through courses, seminars, videos, and social media. She also delivers lectures around the country and oversees curriculum development and evaluation for economics courses.
Dr. Bradley is a professor of economics at The Institute of World Politics and an affiliate scholar at the Acton Institute. She is the co-editor and author of Counting the Cost: Christian Perspectives on Capitalism, For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty, and Be Fruitful and Multiply: Why Economics is Necessary for Making God-Pleasing Decisions. Dr. Bradley’s academic work ranges on the question of income inequality and economic freedom, human anthropology and human flourishing, the role of women in creating civil society in early America, as well as the political economy of terrorism, with specific emphasis on the industrial organization of al-Qaeda. Based on her academic research, she worked as an economic analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Terrorism Analysis.
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Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has a D.Phil. in moral philosophy and political economy from Oxford University, and an M.A. in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, monetary theory and policy, and natural law theory.
He is the author of seventeen books, including On Ordered Liberty (2003), The Commercial Society (2007), Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy (2010); Becoming Europe(2013); Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization (2019); The Essential Natural Law (2021); and The Next American Economy: Nation, State and Markets in an Uncertain World (2022). Two of his books have been short-listed for Conservative Book of the Year, and one of his books was short-listed for the 2023 Hayek Prize. Many of his books and over 700 articles and opinion pieces have been translated into a variety of languages.
In 2024, he was awarded the prestigious Bradley Prize by The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. This Prize honors scholars and practitioners whose accomplishments reflect the Bradley Foundation’s mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism.
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Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He's a programmer with over 20 years experience, an open source contributor to many different Bitcoin projects and the author of Programming Bitcoin from O'Reilly, The Little Bitcoin Book, Thank God for Bitcoin, Bitcoin and the American Dream, and Fiat Ruins Everything. Jimmy has been a lecturer at the University of Texas, an expert witness in legal cases involving Bitcoin and is an advisor to multiple companies. Jimmy writes a weekly newsletter, Bitcoin Tech Talk, and has a podcast, Bitcoin Fixes This.
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Andrew F. Puzder is a speaker, political commentator, attorney, and retired chief executive officer. For 17 years he served as the CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc., an international corporation which owns popular restaurant chains Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s. Mr. Puzder is a sought-after commentator on economic and political issues in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Fox News Online, and Real Clear Politics. He has also been a regular guest on Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, and CNBC. Mr. Puzder has recorded six PragerU videos on economic issues, each of which has garnered millions of views. Mr. Puzder currently serves on the Board of Advisors for Young America’s Foundation’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise, and he is a frequent lecturer and author for the organization on economics, business, and public policy. The titles of his lectures include: “Why Millennials Should Embrace Capitalism and Reject Socialism”; “The Moral Case For Capitalism”; “The Threat of ‘Woke’ Capitalism”; and “Why ESG Is Socialism In Sheep’s Clothing.” In 2023, he spoke at a Hillsdale College event on “The Biden Economy And How It Could Be Fixed.”
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Patrice Onwuka is the director of the Center for Economic Opportunity at the Independent Women’s Forum. Patrice co-hosts WMAL-FM’s morning show O’Connor & Company, the leading talk radio station in the DC area every Friday. Patrice is also a senior adjunct fellow with The Philanthropy Roundtable and a Tony Blankley Fellow at The Steamboat Institute. Patrice has worked in policy, advocacy, and communications roles in Washington, D.C. for more than a decade on issues related to the economy, employment, technology, philanthropy, and the criminal justice system.
Prior to moving to Washington, Patrice served as a speechwriter for a United Nations spokesman. Patrice is a frequent guest on Fox News, Fox Business News, and PBS programs. Her opinions have appeared in the Washington Post, USA Today, Barron’s, CNBC, Bloomberg, and other national outlets. She hosts a column called the New Agenda for Black Women on Newsmax.com and is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and The Hill.
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Dr. Laffer’s economic acumen and influence in triggering a worldwide tax-cutting movement in the 1980s have earned him the distinction in many publications as “The Father of Supply-Side Economics.” One of his earliest successes in shaping public policy was his involvement in Proposition 13, the groundbreaking California initiative that drastically cut property taxes in the state in 1978.
Dr. Laffer was a member of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board for both of his two terms (1981-1989), was a member of the Executive Committee of the Reagan/Bush Finance Committee in 1984, and was a founding member of the Reagan Executive Advisory Committee for the Presidential race of 1980. He also advised Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on fiscal policy in the UK during the 1980s. In 2019, Dr. Laffer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump.
Dr. Laffer currently sits on the board of directors or advisors of a number of private and public companies, including AML RightSource, ARK Investment Management, Armor Concepts, BelHealth Investment Partners, Gemini Bio, GoodCell, Gridiron Capital, NexPoint Real Estate Finance, NexPoint Residential Trust, Precision Diagnostics, Preverity, Tenth Avenue Holdings, The Service Companies, VerifyMe, VineBrook Homes Trust, and others.
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In this Wendy P McCaw Roundtable Luncheon, Di Martino will share firsthand accounts of how these policies destroy economies and lives, while advocating for the preservation of liberty in America. Don't miss this compelling discussion, live from the 2024 Road to Freedom Seminar.
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Daniel Di Martino is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Columbia University and a graduate fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he focuses on high-skill immigration policy. Di Martino has appeared dozens of times on national TV channels, including Fox News and CNN; written for USA Today, National Review, City Journal, and other news outlets; and speaks regularly at college campuses and events all over the country. In addition to his economic research on immigration and his media appearances, Di Martino founded the Dissident Project to teach high school students about the evils of socialist regimes. He also serves on YAF's Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise's Board of Advisors.
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This Young America’s Foundation event is part of the Logan Family Lecture Series.
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Michael Knowles is the celebrated host of “The Michael Knowles Show” at the Daily Wire and “The Book Club” at PragerU. He is also the author of the best-selling book “Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds”
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Young America’s Foundation is the leading organization for young conservatives. With more than 60 years of history and contacts on more than 2,000 campuses, we help students like you find support, promote your conservative views and take action. Get involved with YAF today:
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