Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.co...

Kerby Anderson is host of Point of View Radio Talk Show and also serves as the President of Probe Ministries. He holds masters degrees from Yale University (science) and Georgetown University (governm...

In February 2022, Ryan Gardner joined the First Liberty Institute as Counsel after spending over four years at a large Dallas law firm handling complex commercial disputes both before both trial and a...

In February 2022, Ryan Gardner joined the First Liberty Institute as Counsel after spending over four years at a large Dallas law firm handling complex commercial disputes both before both trial and appellate courts. Before his time in private practice, Ryan worked in Washington D.C. as a law clerk to the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Ryan graduated as Valedictorian from the Pepperdine University School of Law, where he served as the Lead Articles Editor for the Pepperdine Law Review and the President of the Pepperdine chapter of the Federalist Society. While in law school, Ryan also externed at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable Sandra Ikuta and worked in Pepperdine’s Ninth Circuit Clinic. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Harding University, where he graduated summa cum laude. Ryan is a member of the Texas State Bar and is admitted to practice in various federal district and appellate courts.

Genevieve Collins built and led Texas's largest policy and grassroots operation as State Director for Americans for Prosperity Texas, where she spent five years designing and executing legislative and...

Genevieve Collins built and led Texas's largest policy and grassroots operation as State Director for Americans for Prosperity Texas, where she spent five years designing and executing legislative and grassroots strategy at scale. Under her leadership, she helped legislators pass statewide school choice, advance major healthcare access and affordability reforms, and enact transformational housing reforms. In her political action work, she helped change 30% of the Texas House and Senate floors.Before AFP-TX, Genevieve was the Republican nominee for Congress in Texas's 32nd Congressional District and spent over a decade building Istation, a Dallas edtech company, from 36 employees to nearly 300 as Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy, opening two international offices along the way. A seventh-generation Texan and Dallas native, she earned her MBA from the Cox School of Business at SMU and competed at the NCAA Championship level as a Division I rower at the University of Tennessee.Today, as Founder and CEO of Chester Dallas Consulting, Genevieve brings strategy, policy expertise, political acumen, and execution to clients across various sectors, connecting everyday Texans and taxpayer-focused businesses with the public policy that shapes their future.