2010 Students For Liberty Southeast Regional Conference

- 2010 Students For Liberty -

- Southeast Regional Conference -

Saturday, October 23

Kennesaw State University

Hosted by the College Libertarians of Kennesaw State University

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“The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours.” – Ayn Rand

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Join Students For Liberty just outside of Atlanta, GA to meet like-minded students, pursue the philosophy of liberty further, meet the movers and shakers of the movement, and network with leaders of liberty from the south. Leave with the skills necessary to be a leader for liberty on campus, a stronger intellectual framework, and connections to new friends and organizations dedicated to liberty.

For those who have never attended an SFL conference, this is the opportunity to become acquainted with all that SFL has to offer students dedicated to liberty. For those who have, what more needs to be said?

Point of Contact: Brandon Wasicsko – bwasicsko@studentsforliberty.org

Benefits include:

FREE registration
Hear from top liberty speakers
Connect with liberty organizations
FREE books, pamphlets, stickers, and other liberty materials
Get info about student organizing, hosting events and speakers, internships, jobs, programs, seminars, and conferences for liberty
Three FREE meals
Evening social with 2 FREE drinks!

Topics and special breakout sessions:

Student activism panel
Communicating liberty
Know Your Rights: Interaction with Police
Free speech on campus
Higher education funding and bias
Youth and political activism
The future of Austrian economics
Ending the War on Drugs
The Difference One Can Make: Unsung Heroes of History
More to come…

SPEAKERS:

Keynote: Lawrence W. Reed: “The Difference One Can Make: Unsung Heroes of History” – Mr. Reed is the president of the Foundation for Economic Education and president emeritus of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in History from Slippery Rock State University (1978), both in Pennsylvania. He taught economics at Midland’s Northwood University from 1977 to 1984 and chaired the Department of Economics from 1982 to 1984. In the past twenty years, he has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, 200 radio commentaries, dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the U. S. and abroad, as well as five books. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. Reed’s most recent book is Striking the Root: Essays on Liberty. Since 1978, he has delivered more than 1,000 speeches in 40 states and 15 foreign countries, including one at People’s University in Beijing, China.

Pete Eyre: Mr. Eyre went to school for law enforcement, eventually concluding that he could have a bigger impact working through other mediums. He is currently an Outreach Consultant at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His past experiences include interning at the Cato Institute, completing the Charles G. Koch Summer Fellowship Program at the Drug Policy Alliance, serving as the director of the Institute for Humane Studies’ Campus Outreach program, and filming an almost-real-time documentary in search of liberty across America, the Motorhome Diaries. His newest project is Liberty on Tour.

Jared Fuller: Jared is currently Southeastern Regional Director to Young Americans for Liberty, the Youth Director for Our America Initiative, the 2009-2010 Southern Director to Students For Liberty, and has worked on many local, state, and national campaigns to bring about effective changes in the way we perceive the role of government. A New Mexico native, Jared moved to North Carolina to acquire his double-major of political science and philosophy from Wake Forest University. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Year of Youth, an initiative geared toward training and mobilizing youth activists for the 2012 election season, building a network of passionately pro-liberty students and young professionals for elections to come.

Allison Gibbs: Allison is the founder and Executive Director of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA). She is also the Director of Outreach for the Campaign for Liberty. She did AIDS and DOD research for about 8 years of her life. She is a published writer, poet, and has spent the last 8 years developing a philosophical theory derived from Plato’s Theory of the Forms.

Author photo Jenna Ashley Robinson: Jenna Ashley Robinson joined the Pope Center in January 2007. She was previously the E.A. Morris Fellowship Assistant at the John Locke Foundation, where she worked since 2001. Robinson graduated from N.C. State with a degree in political science and French in May 2003 and has studied at the University of East Anglia School of American Studies in Norwich, England. She received her master’s degree in political science from UNC-Chapel Hill in December 2005. She is a Ph.D. candidate in political science with a concentration in American politics and a minor in methods. She is also a graduate of the Koch Associates Program sponsored by the Charles G. Koch Foundation.

Daniel D'Amico Dr. Daniel D’Amico: Daniel J. D’Amico finished his Ph.D. in economics at the age of twenty six from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. While at George Mason, professor D’Amico received fellowships from The H.B. Earhart Foundation, The Ludwig von Mises Institute, The Mercatus Center and The Institute for Humane Studies. He participated in and conducted original field research with The Mercatus Center to investigate the effects of hurricane Katrina on the gulf coast region. His dissertation, “The Imprisoner’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Proportionate Punishment,” was awarded the Izrael M. Kirzner award for best dissertation on Austrian Economics. He is currently in the process of seeking publication for several of its constituent parts as well as continuing his ongoing research on the economics of crime and punishment.

Jeff Fulcher: Jeff joined the Advocates as Program Director in August of 2009. After years of helping college students start freedom-focused newspapers, he is responsible for growing the effectiveness and reach of the Advocates mission. Before coming to the Advocates, Jeff was Director of Publications at the Leadership Institute. He traveled from New England to California empowering a generation of students to stand up for freedom on their campuses. Under his direction the Student Publications Department nearly doubled in size, and grew their programmatic offering to include public speaking, fundraising, investigative reporting, writing, and design workshops. Jeff has worked with national groups like Citizens Against Government Waste and United Press International to develop and implement marketing strategies. His writing has been published in the American Spectator and the Young American Revolution.

Adam Kissel: Adam Kissel graduated from Harvard University and from the University of Chicago, where he served as Student Liaison to the Board of Trustees and earned a master’s degree from the Committee on Social Thought. His academic interests include the history and theory of liberal education, the history and theory of rhetoric, and rhetoric’s relationship with philosophy. He also has served as a professional editor for Nobel laureate James Heckman and for faculty in a variety of disciplines. Before joining FIRE, Adam was a director of the Lehrman American Studies Center and the Jack Miller Center for the Teaching of America’s Founding Principles. With Sharon Browne he wrote a Faculty Rights Handbook in 2007. Since joining FIRE, he has spoken about individual rights on college campuses in Colorado, Indiana, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wisconsin, New York, North Carolina, California, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. In 2009, he won a First Prize in education reporting from the National Education Writers Association.

ay Fisher is a state’s attorney, handling post-conviction matters on behalf of the prosecution. He has been involved in numerous murder appeals of both local and national prominence.

In his mid-thirties, Jay reached a crossroads in his life where he had to make a decision on his stance regarding the drug war. On the one hand, he held very strong law-and-order personal views, and even applied for federal law enforcement positions with the F.B.I. and D.E.A. However, he also held very strong positions on issues such as government spending, bureaucratic waste and individual liberty. In the end, he opted for liberty, freedom and an end to government intrusion.

Jay also represents his state’s corrections department in constitutional rights cases. He has witnessed the overcrowding of state prisons with people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. “In my department, we have seven attorneys to handle all the post-conviction litigation generated by 50,000 inmates. Untold numbers of these prisoners are in for drug-only related offenses, eating up taxpayer resources for essentially victimless crimes.”

Jay Fisher: Jay Fisher is a state’s attorney, handling post-conviction matters on behalf of the prosecution. He has been involved in numerous murder appeals of both local and national prominence.