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John is an entrepreneurial-minded business executive and attorney. John has served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer/General Counsel for some of the country's leading asset management firms. John has extensive experience starting, growing, restructuring and managing businesses. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Susan Marino is Executive Director at Lafayette Preparatory Academy in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. James V. Shuls is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Missouri St. Louis and Distinguished Fellow in Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Jamie Rosenberg Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ClassWallet. Passionate about helping education; Serial entrepreneur; Quit M&A law to dedicate his career to helping teachers; Founder of AdoptAClassroom.org, which has helped teachers in 1/3 of schools in the US and improved the learning environment for 3.5 million children. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform. She has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform to transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients. She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, patient-centered marketplace in the health sector. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) is an educational, research, and human rights nonprofit devoted to commemorating the more than 100 million victims of communism around the world and to pursuing the freedom of those still living under totalitarian regimes. In support of VOC’s mission to “educate this generation and future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of communism," the St. Louis Commission (VOC-STL) is committed to bringing this important human rights initiative to the local community. In recent years St. Louis has seen a growing support of communism and a celebration of communist symbols as a reflection of equality and justice. This increased activity is an insult to the millions of victims of communism, including local residents who fled oppressive communist regimes for a better life in the United States. The local commission is a volunteer based operation, including the leadership team and residents who are concerned about the rising support for this deadly ideolo

On September 10, 2020, the Show-Me Institute hosted a virtual town hall featuring Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl. Brian discussed the looming national debt crisis in America, fiscal responsibility, economic growth, and more. Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on budget, tax, and economic policy. Previously, he worked for six years as chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and as staff director of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth. He also served as a director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign and was the lead architect of the ten-year deficit-reduction plan for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. During 2001–11, Riedl served as the Heritage Foundation’s lead research fellow on the federal budget and spending policy. In that position, he helped lay the groundwork for Congress to cap soaring federal spending, rein in farm subsidies, and ban pork-barrel earmarks. Riedl’s writing and resear

Read the full report: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/plan-make-medicaid-fair-accountable Christopher Pope is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Previously, he was director of policy research at West Health, a nonprofit medical research organization; health-policy fellow at the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce; and research manager at the American Enterprise Institute. Pope’s research focuses on healthcare payment policy, and he has recently published reports on hospital-market regulation, entitlement design, and insurance-market reform. His work has appeared in, among others, the Wall Street Journal, Health Affairs, US News and World Report, and Politico. Pope holds a B.Sc. in government and economics from the London School of Economics and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis.​ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies. Cannon has been described as “an influential health‐​care wonk” by the Washington Post. His articles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal; the New York Times; USA Today; the Washington Post; the Los Angeles Times; the New York Post; the Chicago Tribune; the Chicago Sun‐​Times; the San Francisco Chronicle; SCOTUSBlog; Huffington Post; Forum for Health Economics and Policy; JAMA Internal Medicine; Health Matrix: Journal of Law‐​Medicine; Harvard Health Policy Review; the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics; and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Cannon is the coeditor of Replacing Obamacare: The Cato Institute on Health Care Reform and coauthor of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It. Previously, he served as a domestic policy analyst for the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, where he advised the Senate leadership on health, education, labor, welfare, and the S

Stuart Butler is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings, Butler spent 35 years at The Heritage Foundation, as Director of the Center for Policy Innovation and earlier as Vice-President for Domestic and Economic Policy Studies. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution. He is a member of the editorial board of Health Affairs and the board of Mary's Center, a group of Washington DC-area community health centers. Patrick Ishmael is the director of government accountability at the Show-Me Institute. He is a native of Kansas City and graduate of Saint Louis University, where he earned honors degrees in finance and political science and a law degree with a business concentration. His writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Weekly Standard, and dozens of publications across the state and country. Ishmael is a regular contributor to Forbes and HotAir.com. His policy work predominantly focuses on tax, health care, an

Walter Blanks Jr. is a Communications Associate at AFC and the first private school choice program recipient AFC has hired. Before joining AFC full-time, Walter was chosen for the first cohort of the American Federation for Children Future Leaders Fellowship, a year-long advocacy and professional development program for graduates of private school choice programs. Before moving to Washington, D.C. to join the national team, Walter championed educational freedom and shared his story across the country serving as a 2018 50CAN National Voices Fellow, an advocacy fellowship that aims to find, connect and support young leaders in education. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

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Patrick Ishmael is the director of government accountability at the Show-Me Institute. He is a native of Kansas City and graduate of Saint Louis University, where he earned honors degrees in finance and political science and a law degree with a business concentration. Elias Tsapelas is a Senior Analyst at the Show-Me Institute. Before joining the Show-Me Institute, he worked for the State of Missouri’s Department of Economic Development and Office of Administration—Division of Budget & Planning. His research interests include economic development, health policy, and budget-related issues. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

On July 9, 2020 Dr. Michael Q. McShane, Director of National Research at EdChoice and Senior Fellow of Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute hosted a panel discussion on how to safely reopen Missouri Schools. The panel included: Dr. Susan Pendergrass - Director of Research and Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute Senator Cindy O’Laughlin - Missouri’s 18th Senatorial District Representative Chuck Basye - Represents Missouri's 47th District in the Missouri House of Representatives Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ This event was sponsored by EdChoice: https://www.edchoice.org/ The Show-Me Institute and Show-Me Opportunity

Ranken CEO, Stan Shoun brings a background of military service, a degree in aeronautical engineering and a long career in technical education to his position. Embarking on a second career in education after retiring from the US Navy in 1996, Shoun served as the Vice President of Workforce Development and Continuing Education at Central Virginia Community College (CVCC) in Lynchburg, Va., and also served as that college’s Dean of Math, Science and Engineering. Most recently, he held the position as President of Ranken Technical College (2009-2019). As CEO, Shoun is responsible for strategic planning of programs and partnerships that integrate education and workforce solutions. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Brian Blase was Special Assistant to the President at WH National Economic Council '17-'19; CEO of Blase Policy Strategies. Elias Tsapelas is a Senior Analyst at the Show-Me Institute. Learn more about Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Howard Wall, Ph.D., directs the Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise and is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Economics and the Environment. He is also a Professor of Economics in Plaster School of Business & Entrepreneurship at Lindenwood University. Prior to joining Lindenwood in 2011, Wall was a vice president and regional economics adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In addition, he spent ten years as an academic in the economics departments at West Virginia University and Birkbeck College, University of London; had two stints as a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan; and was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Instituto de Economía de Montevideo, Uruguay. Wall has published more than 50 papers in scholarly journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Journal of Regional Science. Learn more about the Show-Me I

Nathan Willett is an algebra II teacher in the Kansas City Public School District and an intern at the Show-Me Institute. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

As director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, Lindsey Burke oversees the foundation’s research and policy on issues pertaining to preschool, K-12, and higher education reform. Burke’s commentary, research, and op-eds have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, and she is a frequent guest on radio and television shows and speaks on education reform issues across the country and internationally. She has published evaluations of education choice options for public policy foundations across the country, and has done extensive work developing and evaluating education savings accounts (ESAs).

On May 21, Show-Me Institute co-hosted a virtual town hall featuring National Review Institute's Richard Brookhiser and Justin Dyer, Director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri. In his latest book, NRI fellow Richard Brookhiser recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of thirteen essential documents. He offers up a truer and more inspiring story of American nationalism as it has evolved over four hundred years. He makes the case that Americans have always sought liberty, asked for it, fought for it; every victory has been the fulfillment of old hopes and promises. This is our nationalism, and we should be proud of it. This event was sponsored by: National Review Institute, Show-Me Institute, Kinder Institute, and The Kansas City Public Library.

Andy Smarick is the Director, Civil Society, Education and Work; Resident Senior Fellow at R Street where he researches and writes about civil-society issues, including localism, governing institutions, education and social entrepreneurship. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity