FreedomFest 2018

Twila Brase, RN, PHN, is president and co-founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, a national organization focused on protecting health privacy and supporting patient and doctor freedom. She is a certified public health nurse who specialized in ER Nursing. She conducts research... Read More →

Steve Forbes is the editor-in-chief of Forbes Magazine and a co-ambassador of FreedomFest. He writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading “Fact and Comment.” A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal... Read More →

Hunter Hastings is an established author, venture capitalist, and advocate for liberty, economic freedom, and individual entrepreneurship. He is an ambassador for the Mises Institute, and holds bachelor’s and master's degrees in economics from Cambridge University. He has been a... Read More →

Matt Kibbe is president and chief community organizer at Free the People and an executive producer at CRTV. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna. In 2004 Kibbe founded FreedomWorks, where he served as president and CEO for 11 years. Steve... Read More →

Twenty-four-year-old human rights activist and North Korean defector Yeonmi Park is fast becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. At the 2014 Oslo Freedom Forum and the One Young World Summit in Dublin, she became an international phenomenon, delivering passionate... Read More →

New York Times bestselling author John Prevas co-authored Power Ambition Glory with Steve Forbes (Random House), a study of six ancient leaders paralleling their strengths and weaknesses with contemporary business figures. John is known as the historian who retraces the steps of his... Read More →

Barry Strauss is the author of the bestselling The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination (2015), The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece – and Western Civilization (named a best book of 2004 by the Washington Post) and several other... Read More →