Founders & Advisors
A founding circle committed to economic literacy, civic friendship, free enterprise, and constitutional liberty.
John Hood
Co-Founder & Steering Committee
Author, commentator, and one of North Carolina’s leading voices on economics, public policy, and civic life. President of the John William Pope Foundation.
Michael Munger
Co-Founder & Steering Committee
Professor of Political Science and Economics at Duke University and a leading public intellectual on markets and public choice.
Jenna Robinson
Co-Founder & Steering Committee
Education leader and advocate for intellectual inquiry, institutional excellence, and civic understanding. President of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.
Ted Hicks
Co-Founder & Steering Committee
Business leader and civic-minded supporter of economic freedom, entrepreneurship, and community engagement.
Richard Salsman
Co-Founder & Steering Committee
Economist, author, and scholar of capitalism, constitutionalism, and political economy. President of InterMarket Forecasting, Inc.
Brad Taylor
Founder & President
Attorney, entrepreneur, and civic organizer. Licensed to practice law in California and the District of Columbia. CEO of Xona Microfluidics, Inc., a North Carolina corporation developing advanced microfluidic platforms for neuroscience research. Past Director of AIER's Bastiat Society of Raleigh and Harwood Salons Raleigh. Committed to informed discussion about liberty, individual responsibility, free enterprise, and constitutional government.