Robert Dillon, Senior Vice President at Agenda-Global, Martin Jirusek, Assistant Professor at Masaryk University, Czech Republic and Justen Keating, founder of Keating Global Risks join Rainey Center VP Mia Heck to discuss energy security in the days preceding Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Sarah welcomes guests Clarence Edwards from the Friends Committee on National Legislation and Steve Hayward, Senior Resident Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, to discuss why the ecomodern approach to climate policy has universal appeal.
In this episode, Sarah sits down with one of her old professors, Dr. David Rehr - the director of the Center for Business Engagement at George Mason University. Sarah and Dr. Rehr discuss where he got his start - working as a staffer on Capitol Hill, to becoming a CEO, and his jump back into politics as a professor at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. Dr. Rehr digs into how these life experiences helped to shape him as a person, and also his views on policy.
In this special COP26 edition of our podcast, Rainey Center CEO Sarah Hunt discusses what to expect from the annual UN climate change conference in Glasgow. Leading conservative climate voices Nick Loris from the Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions, and Chris Barnard from The Conservation Coalition discuss conservatives at COP having a voice at the table.
The Rainey Center’s Bartlett Cleland discusses the state of conservative energy and clean tech policy with American Conservative Coalition’s Quill Robinson, Alex Fitzsimmons of ClearPath, and Charles Hernick of CRES.
Rainey Center CEO Sarah Hunt and Shafron Hawkins discuss the impact of economic empowerment on disadvantaged communities in the latest Policy for the People podcast!
CEO & President Sarah Hunt discusses political reform with Rainey Center Board Members Sharon Jackson and Francis Johnson.
Rainey Center CEO & President Sarah Hunt talks with Women in Tech leaders Katie Harbath and Sasha Moss about their influential work in digital technology. Katie spent ten years at Facebook building a global team focused on teaching governments at the local, regional, and national levels to use the social media giant in their elections processes. Sasha Moss is an expert in developing strategy around coalitions, outreach, and intellectual property policy in innovation technology. Listen in now!
The extensive, reliable U.S. power grid has fueled the nation’s growth since the early 1900s; however, the grid we have today does not have the attributes necessary to meet the demands of the 21st century and beyond. It will take public and private partners to develop the concepts, tools, and technologies needed to measure, analyze, predict, protect, and control the grid of the future.
Listen in on Bartlett Cleland’s discussion with Alan Snook co-founder, and President of GRID20/20, Inc. and Vincent Duane, a highly regarded leader in ISO/RTO (electricity transmission) operations in the U.S.
Rainey Center's Mia Heck talks with subject matter experts on what is legal, transparent and fair in state redistricting processes. Experts include Walter Olson from the Cato Institute, Misha Tseytlin of Troutman Pepper and Chris Perkins from polling and research company Ragnar Research.
Part of our Policymakers & Journalists Series, Rainey Center CEO and President Sarah Hunt talks with distinguished journalists Lisa Lednicer, Multiplatform editor and Sunday magazine writer for The Washington Post and Chuck McCutcheon an Editor for Bloomberg Environment.
Rainey Center CEO and President Sarah Hunt hosts a conversation with U.S. Representative John Curtis and Bloomberg’s Dean Scott for a conversation on the future of conservative climate policy.
President & CEO Sarah Hunt brings Doug Patteson and Justen Keating on as two veteran national security professionals with CIA and State Department experience to discuss their careers and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Dr. Monica Sharma is a Physician and Epidemiologist known for her incredible lifelong work on infectious diseases with the United Nations, universities, management institutions, governments, non-governmental organizations, business, media, and other organizations. Dr. Sharma is also the author of the award-winning book “Radical Transformational Leadership”
Over the last year and in response to recent violent protesting more than more than 90 anti-protest bills have been introduced in at least thirty states. Many of these proposed laws seek guilt by association for mass gatherings that could become violent, or if a handful of individuals become violent. Subject matter experts Senior Legal Advisor of International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, Nick Robinson as well as Senior Policy Analyst of Americans for Prosperity David Voorman discuss the implications of these policies and what can be done to protect free speech and our constitutional right to peacefully assemble.