Ray Ficca has been working as an actor, director, and producer for over 35 years. When not on stage, in front of the camera, or putting it all together, Ray finds inspiration and sparks of creativity from teaching acting at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts - Washington DC's only accredited actor training studio.

Leslie Danford, founder and CEO of Vitaminis, a clean-label functional food and beverage brand. She has always been passionate about nutrition, but she is not a foodie. For her, it’s like a math equation, and it’s important to cover all of your nutritional bases. In 2020 she combined her personal interests with her formal business training to launch Vitaminis. Previously she worked in beverages and consumer products at large corporations. She earned her MBA from Harvard University and her BA from the University of Chicago.

Check out Vitaminis: https://vitaminisbrand.com/

Helder Toste is the Government Affairs Liaison for The LIBRE Initiative, a national non-partisan Hispanic advocacy group.

Previously, Helder was the Field Director at the National Republican Senatorial Committee where he organized Hispanic voter contact efforts for 8 U.S. Senate campaigns and helped Republicans secure a record share of the vote in a midterm election.

He has also served as the National Hispanic Director for the Republican National Committee and worked for Rep. Nunes from California.

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Emily Holubowich joined the American Heart Association in 2019 with more than twenty years of experience in health and fiscal policy, government relations, strategic communications, and coalition management. She is frequently sought out by the media for her expertise on public health and fiscal policy, serves as a lecturer in health policy and management at The George Washington University, and is called upon by national organizations to lecture on the policy environment and best practices in strategic communications and advocacy.

Kathryn Schubert has served as President & CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) since April 2020. She is a trusted leaders and consensus builder among women’s health stakeholders, and previously served as chief advocacy officer at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM). Katie began her career on Capitol Hill and subsequently advised organizations on policy strategy in the healthcare space. She is a board member of the National Health Council, Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance, and ASPN Foundation. She is a previous president of Women in Government Relations, and in 2020 was named Advocate of the Year by Professional Women in Advocacy for her work on inclusion of pregnant and lactating populations in research, and in 2024 named as one of the most influential people shaping policy in healthcare by the Washingtonian magazine. 

Juliana Reed is executive director at the Biosimilars Forum. Reed has served as the Biosimilars Forum president for more than eight years and was one of its original co-founders. She brings more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare sector to the Forum and has served in executive roles leading global corporate and government affairs for Pfizer, Hospira and Coherus BioSciences.

Jon Martin serves as a board member of the Biosimilars Forum where he acts as a liaison to the biosimilar industry on policy matters that may facilitate cost savings to the healthcare system.

The Biosimilars Forum was incorporated in Washington, DC, as a nonprofit organization to advance biosimilars in the United States with the intent of expanding access and availability of biological medicines, and improving health care. The Biosimilars Forum will provide evidence-based information to inform and support public policies that encourage awareness, access, and adoption of biosimilars.

Find more at https://biosimilarsforum.org/

Timothy Carney is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on civil society, family, localism, religion in America, economic competition, and electoral politics. He is concurrently a senior columnist at the Washington Examiner.

Mr. Carney’s most recent book is titled Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be. He is also the author of Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse (2019), which was a Washington Post bestseller; Obamanomics (2009); and The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money (2006), which was awarded the 2008 Culture of Enterprise award by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant and policy analyst. He taught economics and history at Cambridge University and subsequently worked in finance as an investment analyst and in corporate finance before becoming a special adviser to the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. He has written extensively for publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Spectator, Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Daily Telegraph. He is the author of the books, The Age of Global Warming: A History (2013) and Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex (2017).

Joel Kotkin is the Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and directs the Center for Demographics and Policy there. He is Executive Editor of the widely read website NewGeography.com. He has a regular column in Spiked in the UK, the National Post in Canada and the American Mind. He also writes regularly for UnHerd, Quillette, the Los Angeles Times, National Review, City Journal, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator as well as many other national publications.

Kotkin is the author of ten previously published books, including the widely praised The New Class Conflict (Telos Press), which describes the changing dynamics of class in America. He authored The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us in 2016 and co-edited, with MIT’s Alan Berger, the 2018 collection Infinite Suburbia. He also co-edited, with Ryan Streeter, a book on the future of cities.

Kirsten Axelsen is a Health Innovator Fellow with The Aspen Institute, and a Visiting Scholar with The American Enterprise Institute. Kristen focuses on biopharma reimbursement and health policy and has worked with biopharmaceutical and related companies for over 20 years on business strategy and public affairs in the US, EU, China and Emerging Markets. She is an advisor to the Life Sciences sector in the New York office.

Bob Beauprez is a rancher and former banker and politician from Boulder County. He was made chair of the Boulder County Republicans in 1997, and two years later was named chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. He represented Colorado’s Seventh Congressional District from 2003 to 2007. A devout Catholic and member of the Republican Party, Beauprez has long maintained his stance as a moderate conservative despite rightward shifts within the Republican Party. After leaving politics, Beauprez bought a 1,300-acre bison ranch in North Park, where he now spends most of his time.