A conversation on society, culture, and the economy with Mitch Pearlstein, president of the Center of the American Experiment, and Dane Smith, president of Growth and Justice.
March 25, 2014, 7:00-8:30 p.m. | Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center
MITCH PEARLSTEIN
Pearlstein, PhD, is founder and president of Center of the American Experiment, a nonpartisan, tax-exempt, public policy and educational institution which brings conservative and free market ideas to bear on the hardest problems facing Minnesota and the nation. Pearlstein served two years in the U.S. Department of Education during the Reagan and (first) Bush administrations.
DANE SMITH
Since 2007, Smith has been president of Growth and Justice, a nonpartisan policy research and advocacy organization focused on achieving a more inclusive prosperity for Minnesota, and supporting investments and policies that foster both business growth and economic justice. Smith’s career includes 30 years as a journalist for the Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press, where he developed a solid reputation reporting and writing about state, local, and federal government and politics.
This Symposium was co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters Minnesota.