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FreeCon 2025
On February 24, 2025, we invite you to join Freedom Conservatives for our inaugural one-day annual conference in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club. It will be the year’s premier gathering of those who are advancing liberty across America and in our nation’s capital.
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Conserving Free Communities: A Pro-Liberty Agenda for Americans Left Behind
Monday February 24, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm EST
Ballroom
The opioid crisis. Deaths of despair. Americans coming apart and bowling alone. In the 21st century, numerous authors have observed that while the U.S. statistically reaches new heights of economic prosperity, not all people have participated in America's success. Crucially, some on the Right now argue that individual and economic freedom are responsible for leaving too many Americans behind.  FreeCon signatory Charles Murray has written the definitive analysis of the topic, Coming Apart, a book cited by both supporters and opponents of Freedom Conservatism. Carrie Sheffield has written a searing autobiography of her own experience living in sheds, tents, and motorhomes. How can Freedom Conservatism help Americans who are struggling?

Speakers
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Avik Roy

President, FREOPP
Avik Roy is the co-founder and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP.org), a non-partisan, non-profit think tank striving to expand opportunity to those who least have it, using the tools of individual liberty, free enterprise, technological innovation... Read More →
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Kevin Corinth

Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Kevin Corinth is a senior fellow and the deputy director of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he researches economic mobility, poverty, safety net programs, homelessness, social capital, and other issues.
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Carrie Sheffield

Senior Policy Analyst, Independent Women's Forum
Carrie Sheffield is a columnist and broadcaster in Washington DC. She is Program Manager of Healthy Faith and author of the book "Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness" published by Hachette Book Group.A Senior Policy Analyst at Independent Women’s Forum, Carrie earned a master's in public policy from Harvard University, a B.A. with honors in communications at Brigham Young University and completed a Fulbright fellowship in Berlin. Carrie managed municipal credit risk at Goldman Sachs and served as lead analyst on a $5 billion portfolio... Read More →
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Charles Murray

Hayek Emeritus Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Charles Murray holds the F. A. Hayek Chair Emeritus in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.Dr. Murray first came to national attention with the publication of “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980” (Basic Books, 1984), which has been credited a... Read More →
Monday February 24, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm EST
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