4:00–5:00 PM: CIVIC CULTURE AND FOUNDATIONS: HumanProgress.Org
Chelsea Follett, Policy Analyst and Managing Editor of HumanProgress.org, Cato Institute
Sean Kinnard, AP World History Teacher, Yorktown High School
5:05–5:35 PM: APPLICATION WORKSHOP: Bringing Civil Discourse to Your Classroom
Elyse Alter, Content Development Manager, Sphere Education Initiatives
Allan Carey, Director, Sphere Education Initiatives
John Snoad, Educator Engagement Specialist, Sphere Education Initiatives
5:35–6:15 PM: BREAK
6:15–6:45 PM: TRAVEL TO NATIONAL ARCHIVES
6:45–7:15 PM: RECEPTION
7:15–8:30 PM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Nico Perrino, Executive Vice President, Foundation for Individual Rightsand Expression
Tuesday, July 25th
7:30–9:00 AM: CIVIC CULTURE AND FOUNDATIONS: Breakfast and “Teaching the Success of Innovism”
Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Scholar, Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought, Cato Institute
9:00 AM–1:00 PM: FREE MORNING IN DC
Résumé Workshop (9:15–10:15 AM)
1:00–1:55 PM: POLICY WORKSHOP
SESSION A: Foreign Policy: The War in Ukraine
Sahar Khan, Research Fellow, Cato Institute
Dakota Wood, Senior Research Fellow, Defense Programs, Center for the National Defense, Heritage Foundation
SESSION B: Poverty and Family Policy
Vanessa Calder, Director of Opportunity and Family Policy Studies,Cato Institute
Kevin Corinth, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, American Enterprise Institute
Molly Weston Williamson, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
2:00–3:00 PM: POLICY WORKSHOP
SESSION A: Tech Policy: AI, Social Media, and Big Tech
Jennifer Huddleston, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
Nicol Turner Lee, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, and Director, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution
Adam Thierer, Resident Senior Fellow, Technology and Innovation, R Street
SESSION B: New American Worker
Charity‐Joy Acchiardo, Director, Financial Responsibility and Economic Education, Civitas Institute and Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
Scott Lincicome, Vice President, General Economics and Stiefel Trade Policy Center, Cato Institute
David Madland, Senior Fellow and Senior Adviser, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress
3:05–4:00 PM: UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER: Moral Courage and a New Approach to Diversity
Irshad Manji, Founder, Moral Courage
4:00–4:30 PM BREAK
4:30–5:30 PM APPLICATION WORKSHOP
Bill of Rights Institute
Foundation for Economic Education
Street Law
5:30–6:00 PM BREAK
6:00–6:30 PM RECEPTION
6:30–7:30 PM DINNER
7:30–8:30 PM DINNER PROGRAM
George Will, author and Pulitzer Prize‐winning columnist, Washington Post
Wednesday, July 26th
7:00–8:00 AM: BREAKFAST
8:00–9:00 AM: UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER: Members of Congress
9:00–10:00 AM THE HEALTH OF OUR DEMOCRACY
Yascha Mounk, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University
John Samples, Vice President, Cato Institute
10:00–10:30 AM: BREAK
10:30–11:30 AM: APPLICATION WORKSHOP: Foundation for Teaching Economics
iCivics
National Constitution Center
Retro Report
11:30 AM–12:00 PM: LESSON PLAN WORKSHOPS
Elyse Alter, Content Development Manager, Sphere Education Initiatives
Allan Carey, Director, Sphere Education Initiatives
John Snoad, Educator Engagement Specialist, Sphere Education Initiatives
12:00–1:15 PM: LUNCH
1:15–2:15 PM: POLICY DISCUSSIONS
SESSION A: Immigration Policy
Alex Nowrasteh, Vice President for Economic and Social Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies
Stan Veuger, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
SESSION B: Antiracism in Education
Erec Smith, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, York College
2:20–3:15 PM: POLICY DISCUSSIONS: Debt and Spending
Romina Boccia, Director of Budget and Entitlement Policy, Cato Institute