FreedomFest 2018

Host of the popular Whiskey Politics podcast, Dave Sussman writes and speaks frequently on politics and culture as well as economics and financial issues. He interviews top newsmakers, leaders and luminaries from around the country and world, and is a contributor at Ricochet.com... Read More →

Ari Cohn is an attorney who joined FIRE to defend civil liberties after leaving private practice in Chicago, where he represented large multinational companies in high-stakes litigation. Ari regularly comments on First Amendment issues in the press, appearing in television and radio... Read More →

Jennifer Anju Grossman, a former senior vice president at Dole Food Company, is CEO of The Atlas Society. She has spent decades helping people to live freer, healthier lives. She launched the Dole Nutrition Institute — a research and education organization — at the behest of Dole... Read More →

Joseph (Jake) Klein runs the Capital Research Center's media operations, producing web videos as well as hard-hitting investigative short and feature documentary films under the Dangerous Documentaries brand. Jake has produced videos on topics such as “Why Communism Will Always... Read More →

Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker and public speaker from Christchurch, New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics. This research has given Loudon unique insight into how... Read More →

Bill Whittle is the eldest son of an American hotel manager and a British BOAC stewardess. He was born in New York City, grew up in Bermuda and Florida, and was a Theatre major at the University of Florida before moving to Los Angeles, which has been his home since 1988. Bill has... Read More →