FIRST LOOK


A Topic Conference on the Stoa Team Policy Debate Resolution

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This conference is an intensive First Look at the Stoa Team Policy Debate Resolution. Unlike a typical debate camp, there are no lectures on debate theory, no lab groups, and no practice rounds. The focus is on learning about the resolution. Our high class speakers provide this, from a variety of different perspectives, directly to students.

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Conference Details


WHEN

September 26-28

WHERE

Online

TIMEZONE

Pacific Time

PRICING

$50-$100


Individual Access

$50

Per Student


  • live-stream

  • digital recordings

  • q&a

Individual rate includes one person only (whether student or coach).  Parents of the student are included free of charge.

Family Access

$100

Per Family


  • live-stream

  • digital recordings

  • q&a

Family rate includes all members living in the same household, but does not include partnerships.

PLEASE NOTE:

If you decide to watch as a club, each student, partnership, or family must register separately. Sharing video access with unregistered attendees is prohibited.  If you can't attend the livestream in full or in part, you can still register to access the recordings later.

Schedule

**subject to change**

2023 First Look Conference - Energy Policy
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Speaker:

Organization:

Start Time:

End Time:

Duration

Opening Prayer- Announcements

10:00 AM

10:10 AM

10 mins.

Greg Rehmke

Economic Thinking

10:10 AM

11:40 AM

90 mins.

Break

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

20 mins.

David Vasquez

America First Policy Institute

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

90 mins.

Lunch Break

1:30 PM

2:15 PM

45 mins.

Amy Cooke

The John Locke Foundation / State Policy Network

2:15 PM

3:45 PM

90 mins.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Speaker:

Organization:

Start Time:

End Time:

Duration

Opening Prayer- Announcements

10:00 AM

10:10 AM

10 mins.

Rob Bradley

Institute for Energy Research

10:10 AM

11:40 AM

90 mins.

Break

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

20 mins.

David Vasquez

America First Policy Institute

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

90 mins.

Lunch Break

1:30 PM

2:15 PM

45 mins.

Bill Peacock

The Energy Alliance

2:15 PM

3:45 PM

90 mins.

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Speaker:

Organization:

Start Time:

End Time:

Duration

Opening Prayer- Announcements

11:15 AM

11:25 AM

10 mins.

TBA

Either additional speaker or start later

11:25 AM

12:55 PM

90 mins.

Lunch Break

12:55 PM

1:40 PM

45 mins.

Greg Rehmke

Economic Thinking

1:40:PM

3:10 PM

90 mins.

Break

3:10 PM

3:30 PM

20 mins.

Dr. Calvin Beisner

The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation

3:30 PM

5:00 PM

90 mins.

Speaker Bios

Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
CEO and Founder / Institute for Energy Research

Robert L. Bradley, Jr.


Robert L. Bradley Jr. is the CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research. As one of the nation’s leading experts on the history and regulation of energy markets, he has testified before the U.S. Congress and the California Energy Commission, as well as lectured at numerous colleges, universities, and think tanks around the country. Bradley’s views are frequently cited in the media, and his reviews and editorials have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other national publications.

Bradley is a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research and Energy and Climate Change Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London.

As author of eight books, including Energy: The Master Resource (2004); Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political Strategies (2011); and Enron Ascending (2018), Bradley applies the classical liberal worldview to energy policies and related corporate controversies.

Bradley received a B.A. in economics (with honors) from Rollins College, where he also won the S. Truman Olin Award in economics. He received an M.A. in economics from the University of Houston: and a Ph.D. in political economy (with distinction) from International College. He has been a Schultz Fellow for Economic Research and Liberty Fund Fellow for Economic Research, and in 2002 he received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award for his work on energy and sustainable development.

Areas of expertise: History of Energy Policy, History of Energy Thought, Free Market Theory, Public Choice Theory, Social Corporate Responsibility

Dr. Calvin Beisner
President & Founder / Cornwall Alliance

E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.


Dr. Beisner is Founder, President, and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a network of Christian theologians, natural scientists, economists, and other scholars educating for Biblical earth stewardship, economic development for the poor, and the proclamation and defense of the good news of salvation by God’s grace, received through faith in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection.

Dr. Beisner was associate professor of historical theology and social ethics at Knox Theological Seminary from 2000 to 2008 and of interdisciplinary studies (focusing on the application of Biblical worldview, theology, and ethics to economics, government, and public policy) at Covenant College from 1992 to 2000. He has been an elder in the Presbyterian Church in America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, planting a new congregation for the latter and serving on its pastoral staff for three years. He and his wife Debby, an accomplished portrait painter, have seven children and twelve grandchildren.

Education:

B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Religion and Philosophy and double minors in Classical Languages and Classical History, University of Southern California (1978)

M.A. in Society with Specialization in Economic Ethics, International College (1983)

Ph.D. in Scottish History (History of Political Thought), University of St. Andrews, Scotland (2003)

Amy O. Cooke
Visiting Energy Policy Fellow / State Policy Network

Amy O. Cooke


Amy is SPN’s visiting Energy Policy Fellow and oversees the Energy Policy Working Group. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of the John Locke Foundation and publisher of The Carolina Journal. For two decades Amy has been a champion of free markets and limited, constitutional government. She is proud to be one of the original state-level, free-market energy policy advocates.

She has authored and contributed to numerous opinion editorials, issue papers, and issue backgrounders. Amy has been published in the Daily Caller, Townhall, Charlotte ObserverRaleigh News and ObserverDurham Herald SunDenver Post, Pueblo Chieftain, Greeley Tribune, Denver Business Journal, Colorado Politics, and The Hill. She has appeared on Fox News, MSN.com, “Devil’s Advocate,” “Colorado Inside Out,” and “Power Hour.”

Amy is proud to bring her name back to North Carolina where her great-great-great-grandmother — for whom she is named — was born (1786) and raised. She earned a Bachelor of Journalism in magazine journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master’s degree in American History from the University of Northern Colorado.

Bill Peacock
Policy Director / Huffines Liberty Foundation & The Energy Alliance

Bill Peacock


Bill Peacock has spent the last 30+ years working in and around the Texas Legislature fighting for liberty by combining his love for theology, economics, and public policy. He is the policy director for both the Huffines Liberty Foundation and the Energy Alliance. Bill teaches high school government and economics and hosts ExcellentThought.net where he writes about the intersection of faith, culture, and public policy. He also hosts the Liberty Cafe, a podcast on TexasScorecard.com. Bill does research on a variety of issues, including energy, economic, regulatory, and fiscal policy, property rights, natural resources, public education, and the relationship between faith, free markets, and economic prosperity. Bill has a B.A. in History from the University of Northern Colorado and a M.B.A. with an emphasis in public finance from the University of Houston. He lives with his wife, Kelly, and son, William, in the Texas Hill Country, where they attend a reformed church.
David Vasquez
Policy Analyst / Center for American Prosperity, the Center for Energy & Environment at AFPI

David Vasquez


David Vasquez is from Ripon, California, and serves as a Policy Analyst for the Center for American Prosperity, the Center for Energy & Environment at AFPI. Previously, David served in the policy debate world as a founding director of the policy debate team at Concordia-Chicago. Before this, Vasquez served as a development and policy intern through the Charles Koch Foundation’s Koch Internship Program. He is also the co-founder of the Helmsmen Institute, which provides thousands of students in speech and debate with professional training and resources to hone their rhetoric, presentation, public speaking, and policy analysis skills. Vasquez graduated from Concordia University Irvine, majoring in history and political thought, with a minor in law and politics. He was senior captain of the debate team, finishing his senior year as the highest-ranked collegiate debater in the United States among several hundreds of competitors. In his free time, he enjoys ultimate frisbee, rooting for the Oakland Athletics, and researching the impact of tax evasion laws on American expatriates. 
Greg Rehmke
Program Director / Economic Thinking

Greg Rehmke


Economic Thinking Program Director, Gregory F. Rehmke, has directed educational programs for high school, homeschool, and college students for over 20 years. Mr. Rehmke directed educational programs at the Center for the American Idea, The Reason Foundation and the Foundation for Economic Education.

Mr. Rehmke has a degree in Economics from the University of Washington and has worked with the Reason Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Center for the American Idea, and the Foundation for Economic Education.  Mr. Rehmke has published articles in The Freeman, Reason, DailySpeculations.com, and the MasterResource blog. Mr. Rehmke is coauthor of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Economics.