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This year's Liberty\, Faith and Economics S ummit theme is "Supporting Freedom and Liberty: Economic\, Political\, and Religious." This event will feature multiple guest speakers throughout th e day and conclude with our keynote speaker\, Rick Graber.

SCHEDULE

REGISTRATION< /strong> SPEAKER INFORMATION About Dr. Mark Schug:
Mark C. Schug is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsi n Milwaukee and President of Mark Schug Consulting Services. Mark taught f or 36 years at the middle school\, high school\, and university levels. A widely recognized scholar\, he has written and edited over 230 articles\, books\, and national curriculum materials. He has spoken to local\, state\ , and national groups throughout the United States and in 11 other countri es. He has been the guest co-editor of 14 issues of Social Education\, the flagship journal of the National Council for the Social Studies. His late st books are Economic Episodes in American History published by Wohl Publi shing and co-authored by William C. Wood\, Tawni Hunt Ferrarini and M. Sco tt Niederjohn\, now in its second edition. The same author’s team of Fer rarini\, Niederjohn\, Schug\, and Wood wrote Teachers Can Be Financially F it: Economists’ Advice for Educators which was published in 2020 by Spri nger Nature. Mark is co-author of Economic Episodes in Civics and American Government (Wohl Publishing).

Mark does consulting for several l ocal\, state\, and national organizations and has served on the boards of local\, state\, and national non-profit organizations including the (natio nal) Association of Private Enterprise Education\, Economics Wisconsin\, B usiness and Economics Academy of Milwaukee (BEAM)\, St. Andrew Lutheran Ch urch\, School Choice Wisconsin\, and the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies. Mark earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has rece ived six national awards for leadership\, curriculum writing (two)\, servi ce\, and research (two) in economic education.

Mark and his wife\, I o\, have been married for 55 years\, have two grown daughters\, and four g randchildren. They live in Port St. Lucie\, Florida.

About Mr. George Harbison:

George P. Harbison is a writer\, speake r\, political activist\, and retired chief financial officer.

In 2016\, at the request of a YAF student leader\, Mr. Harbison created and d elivered a lecture titled “The Victims of Socialism” at the University of California\, Riverside. Since then\, he has delivered this lecture at over twenty college campuses and at several student conferences put on by Young America’s Foundation in Santa Barbara\, CA and Reston\, VA.
Mr. Harbison’s lecture focuses on the death and destruction caused by three socialist regimes in the twentieth century: Russia\, China\, and Ca mbodia. The presentation consists of narrative\, pictures\, music\, and gr aphics that put into perspective the staggering death toll\, pain\, and su ffering inflicted on the citizens of these regimes. The lecture touches on the worldwide death toll of socialism and brings forward to current times the ongoing threat of this destructive ideology.

As a result of his work on this topic\, Mr. Harbison has been named to the Victims of Com munism Memorial Foundation’s Speakers Bureau.

Mr. Harbison has also written extensively on tax policy\, focusing on dispelling false tax assertions. In 2013\, he wrote an article for Forbes.com that completely d ebunked Warren Buffett’s famous and politically charged assertion that h is federal tax rate was only half that paid by his lower-paid office worke rs. Since then\, his tax myth-busting articles have appeared in Forbes.com \, RealClearMarkets.com\, RealClearPolitics.com\, and AmericanThinker.com.

A native of Michigan\, Mr. Harbison received a BA from Kenyon Co llege\, where he majored in physics. He continued his education at the Uni versity of Michigan\, where he received an MBA (emphasis in finance and ac counting).

Mr. Harbison resides in Mullett Lake\, Michigan.

About Mr. Mark Rienzi:

Mark joined the Becket team in 2011 and has served as President since 2018. He is also a Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America\, Columbus School of Law\, wher e he is co-director of the Center for Religious Liberty\, and has served a s a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He teaches constituti onal law\, religious liberty\, and evidence\, and has been voted Teacher o f the Year three times by the Law School’s Student Bar Association.

With the team at Becket\, Mark has litigated and won an uninterrupted string of important First Amendment cases at the U.S. Supreme Court inclu ding Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC (2012)\, Little Sisters of the Poor (2013)\, Mc Cullen v. Coakley (2014)\, Hobby Lobby (2014)\, Wheaton College (2014)\, H olt v. Hobbs (2015)\, Zubik v. Burwell (2016)\, Our Lady of Guadalupe (202 0)\, Little Sisters of the Poor (2020)\, Diocese of Brooklyn/Agudath Israe l (2020)\, and Fulton v. Philadelphia (2021).

Mark’s scholarshi p on constitutional issues has appeared in a variety of prestigious journa ls including the Harvard Law Review\, Stanford Law Review (online)\, and N otre Dame Law Review. He has been quoted on religious liberty issues in a variety of prestigious outlets\, including the New York Times\, Wall Stree t Journal\, Washington Post\, NPR\, and he has been featured on the Kelly File\, Fox News Sunday\, Your World with Neil Cavuto\, Geraldo at Large\, CNN Tonight\, CNN Live\, Andrea Mitchell Reports\, and Wall Street Journal Live.

Prior to joining Becket\, Mark served as counsel for Wilme rHale LLP and a law clerk to the Hon. Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Cour t of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law Sch ool and B.A. from Princeton University\, both with honors.

A bout Mr. Richard Graber:

Richard W. Grab er was named President and Chief Executive Officer of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in July 2016. He has served on the Foundation’s Board of Directors since 2014. Prior to joining the Foundation\, Rick served as the Senior Vice President for Global Government Relations for Honeywell I nternational from 2012 until 2016. In that role\, he was responsible for l eading Honeywell’s worldwide government relations initiatives. Rick join ed Honeywell in 2010 as Vice President of Government Relations for Europe\ , the Middle East and Africa. He served as the United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2009\, where he actively engaged the Czec h government and private sector on a number of issues\, including Presiden t Bush’s proposed missile defense system\, transparency\, corruption and judicial reform. Rick managed a 280-person embassy and was responsible fo r effectively maintaining and strengthening the historic relations between the two countries.

Prior to his time in Prague\, Rick practiced law in the international\, corporate and government relations practices at the Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren law firm in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the firm from 2004 to 2006 a nd Chief Operating Officer from 2002 to 2004.

Rick serves on the Board of Directors of The Philanthropy Roundtable\, The Kern Family Founda tion\, and Curt Joa\, Inc. He earned a J.D. from Boston University Law Sch ool and graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Duke University. Rick is married to Alexandria (Alex) and they have two sons\, Scott and Erik.

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