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STUDENT & YOUNG PROFESSIONAL

$49
FEEcon Film Festival Kickoff Event
Full Conference Admission
All Friday and Saturday sessions
9 tracks, 60+ speakers, and 50+ sessions
Limited meals included
*Travel, hotel, and tuition reimbursement scholarships are available to students when they register

VIP/DONOR ATTENDEE

$379
For FEE supporters and non-students
Full Conference Admission + VIP events
All Friday and Saturday sessions
9 tracks, 60+ speakers, and 50+ sessions
Full meals and refreshments included
*VIP events include Friday Luncheon, Saturday Breakfast, Saturday Luncheon, and Saturday Leonard E. Read Distinguished Alumni Award Dinner

Why Attend FEEcon?

FEEcon is the premier gathering of freedom lovers from all walks of life, with professional networking opportunities, inspiring panel discussions, and fun for everyone – all sponsored by FEE and held at the landmark Hyatt Regency Atlanta.

Choose from 50+ sessions and 9 distinct learning tracks all designed to provide real skills for professional success, combined with a solid grounding in economic, ethical and legal principles that you won't get anywhere else.

FEEcon will inspire and empower you to set your path and change the world!

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Student Registration
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM: FEEcon
Kickoff Event
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM: Film Screening
Presented by
Taliesin Nexus

LEARNING TRACKS

Entrepreneurship and Business Success

It all starts with an idea. The Entrepreneurship and Business Success track is for those who are looking to turn today’s great idea into tomorrow’s thriving business. Here are some of the questions you’ll get answered in this track:

Can you make the world a better place if you’re making a profit?
Are women victims of the workplace? Take a closer look at the issue of pay and gender.
What’s the key to being an effective leader?
Tech is improving so fast… why aren’t healthcare, education, and other fields keeping up?

Philosophy, Politics, Economics

Explore the concepts that lead to a humane and prosperous society, including:

The flaw in the “market failure” argument for government regulation
Why the government keeps getting bigger - and why it passes detrimental policies
The morality of self-interest
And more!

Debating the Issues

Hearing from different perspectives is essential if you want to be truly informed. Join us as we host a series of debates and discussions in an effort to gain a complete understanding of topics that dominate the popular conversation.

Does the environment need protecting from the free market?
Should we be concerned about wealth inequality?
What are the limits of free speech?
How much government do we really need?

Paths to Education

You have to create value for others if you want to be successful. The Paths to Education track is focused on how to take charge of your life and develop the skills you need to reach your full potential. In this track, you’ll learn:

How to effectively argue and persuade people to your “side"
How to be a rockstar communicator
How to launch a career that doesn’t suck
Why you should consider options outside the higher education monopoly

Technology and Innovation

We live in a world made better by those who innovate. This track explores how burgeoning technologies are changing the world. Hear from experts on the cutting edge of innovation as they provide an inside look at the current and future trends in technology.

Discover how our cities will be transformed by upcoming tech innovations.
Learn how seasteads, startup societies, and special economic zones (SEZs) could make us freer.
Learn the basics of crypto and adopt the future in our panel “Crypto for Everyone.”
Go beyond the basics and learn how and why blockchain tech will reshape our world.

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FEEcon Innovation Challenge

FEE continues its partnership with ProtoHack by creating an intensive workshop within FEEcon where participants will team up to build a business. They will form an idea, create a viable business plan and pitch the idea to a panel of experts. The top teams will go on to receive funding/mentorship to bring your team’s business idea to life. Sign up for FEEcon Innovation Challenge here

Creative Pursuits

Creative professionals are motivated by a passion for their craft. The challenge is turning that creative passion into a practical livelihood. Perfecting one's craft, while important, is just a piece to a larger puzzle. Join us for a series of panels, as creative professionals from different disciplines discuss the common issues and challenges endured along their journey with a focus on lessons learned. Their stories will inspire you to turn your creativity into a meaningful and successful career.
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Market Urbanism: A New Approach to Urban Development

Wherever you live, your city uses archaic regulations to restrict what can be built, and for what purposes buildings can be used. This track is a joint effort by Market Urbanism and FEE to shed some light on the vast spectrum of land use and transportation regulations that suck the vibrancy out of neighborhoods, cause traffic congestion, and constrain housing supply to the point that we have an affordable housing crisis in cities across the world. This track provides you with the intellectual tools you’ll need to make a case for liberty in your own backyard and bring liberty to your streets.

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Challenging Statism

Sponsored by the Ralph Smeed Foundation, this unique track cuts across the other eight tracks and offers four unique sessions that explore how statism, collectivism, and authoritarianism destroy freedom and progress. These sessions will also analyze how we can work to combat statism and promote the "freedom philosophy" in our lives, at work, and on campus.

SPEAKERS

Anousheh Ansari

As the first Iranian in space, fourth overall self-funded space tourist, the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station, co-founder of multiple companies, sponsor of the Ansari X Prize, and author, Anousheh Ansari is a living example of the American dream.

Magatte Wade

Magatte Wade is a TED Global Africa Fellow and founder of Tiossan, a contemporary lifestyle products brand that integrates the three cultures that formed her, Dakar, Paris, and San Francisco. She was named one of Forbes 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa and writes for The Huffington Post, Barron’s, and other publications.

Lawrence W. Reed

Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed became president of FEE in 2008 after serving as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing and speaking for FEE since the late 1970s. He has authored or coauthored eight books, the most recent being Real Heroes: Inspiring True Stories of Courage, Character and Conviction.

Scott Harrison

Scott Harrison is the Founder and CEO of charity: water, a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. In eleven years, charity: water has raised more than $293 million and funded 28,000 water projects in 24 countries.

Brian Bosché

Brian Bosché is a former national journalist and expert in retention and creating ROI by injecting purpose into every element of the free market. He and his wife, Gabrielle Bosché (also speaking at FEE Con 2018) run The Millennial Solution - America’s fastest growing Millennial strategy firm.

Kmele Foster

Kmele is a partner at Freethink and is Lead Producer on Freethink’s original shows. He is also a regular contributor to various media programs and co-hosts a syndicated current events podcast, The Fifth Column, with Michael Moynihan of Vice News and Matt Welch of Reason.

Lonnie Johnson

Lonnie G. Johnson is a former Air Force and NASA engineer who invented the massively popular Super Soaker water gun. He earned his master's degree in nuclear engineering from Tuskegee University, and went on to work for the U.S. Air Force and the NASA space program.

Tina Guo

Tina Guo is an internationally acclaimed and Grammy-nominated virtuoso acoustic/electric cellist, recording artist, and composer. With a multi-faceted career and mastery in a wide range of genres, her passion for musical exploration, artistic expression, and technology are expressed through live performance and visual media.

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Abby Hall

Abby Hall is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute, a non-partisan research and educational think tank based out of Oakland, California.

Daniel D'Amico

Daniel D'Amico is a Lecturer in Economics at Brown University. He is also the Associate Director at The Political Theory Project.

Adam Hengels

Adam Hengels is founder of Market Urbanism, which advocates for liberalization of land-use regulation and market-based transportation systems.

Anne Rathbone Bradley

Dr. Anne Rathbone Bradley is the Vice President of Economic Initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work and Economics and the academic director at The Fund for American Studies.

Antony Davies

Antony Davies is associate professor of economics at Duquesne University, author, speaker, and co-host of the podcast Words & Numbers.

Bob Ewing

Bob is the Director of Media Relations for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He lectures nationwide on effective communication strategies. and has authored 45 published op-eds/articles and three magazine features.

Derek Magill

Derek Magill is a marketer, business strategist and career expert. After dropping out of college during his sophomore year, Derek started a marketing company that went on to generate million of dollars in business for clients.

Isaac Morehouse

Isaac Morehouse is the founder and CEO of Praxis, a startup apprenticeship program for those who want more than college. He won't shut up about how to live free.

James Harrigan

James R. Harrigan is CEO of FreedomTrust. He taught at the collegiate level, became Dean of the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, and later served as Director of Academic Programs at the Institute for Humane Studies and Strata.

Jared Meyer

Jared Meyer is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. His research interests include microeconomic theory and the economic effects of government regulations.

Matthew Mitchell

Matthew D. Mitchell is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Project for the Study of American Capitalism at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is also an adjunct professor of economics at Mason.

Austin Bragg

Austin Bragg is a producer for Reason TV, and is the co-creator of such hits as "Libertarian Game of Thrones," "Libertarian Dad Jokes" and "Desperate Mayors Compete for Amazon HQ2." Prior to joining Reason, he worked at The CATO Institute, Beyond Productions, and Arlington Independent Media.

Michael Strong

Michael Strong is a pioneer in education and independent learning. He is the founder of innovative Socratic, Montessori, and Paideia schools. Michael is also the co-founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Visionary Officer of FLOW.

Patrik Schumacher

Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and founding director at the AA Design Research Lab. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988

Donald J. Boudreaux

Donald J. Boudreaux is a senior fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a Mercatus Center Board Member, and a professor of economics and former economics-department chair at George Mason University. He is also a Research Fellow at Independent Institute.

Richard Ebeling

Dr. Richard M. Ebeling is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of hundreds of articles on free market policy themes.

Romina Boccia

Romina Boccia is a leading fiscal and economic expert at The Heritage Foundation. She is Heritage’s Grover M. Hermann research fellow in federal budgetary affairs and deputy director of the think tank’s Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies.

Brittany Hunter

Brittany Hunter is an Associate Editor at the Foundation for Economic Education. Brittany often takes a millennial approach to her writing, hoping to show her peers how much they rely on free market marvels, like the sharing economy, in their daily lives.

Connor Boyack

Connor Boyack is president of The Association for Teaching Kids Economics and author of the Tuttle Twins book series which introduces the ideas of liberty and free markets to young children.

Brian Brenberg

Brian Brenberg serves as Chair of the Program in Business at The King’s College. Professor Brenberg is a frequent guest on FOX News and FOX Business, and has written for USA Today, Forbes.com, CNBC.com, the New York Post, and The Hill.

TK Coleman

TK Coleman is the Education Director for Praxis. He has coached dozens of young people and top performers from all stages of life. He's the author of hundreds of articles and is a frequent speaker on education, entrepreneurship, freedom, personal growth, and creativity.

Caleb Brown

Caleb Brown is the director of multimedia at the Cato Institute, where he has hosted the Cato Daily Podcast since 2007 and CatoAudio since 2008.

Drew Sawyer

Drew Sawyer is the founder of Moonshine, a start-to-finish production and post-production service company located on the Beltline, servicing Tier 1-3 features, TV Shows and commercials.

Emily Hamilton

Emily Hamilton is a Research Fellow for the State and Local Policy Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her research focuses on urban economics and land-use policy.

Gabrielle Bosche

Gabrielle is the leading expert in generational diversity and Millennial engagement. She is regularly called on for her insight from print, radio and television outlets.

Nolan Gray

Nolan Gray is the policy director for the Center for Market Urbanism and is a grad student in city & regional planning at Rutgers University. His areas of expertise include land-use regulation, development, and urban planning theory.

Robin Koerner

Robin Koerner is a political and economic commentator for the Huffington Post, Independent Voter Network, and other outlets. He holds graduate degrees in both Physics and the Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (U.K.).

Sandy Ikeda

Sandy Ikeda is a professor of economics at Purchase College, SUNY, and the author of The Dynamics of the Mixed Economy: Toward a Theory of Interventionism.

Vicki Alger

Vicki E. Alger is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, and author of the book Failure: The Federal "Misedukation" of America’s Children.

Jonathan Higbee

Photographer Jonathan Higbee is a 2018 Hasselblad Masters finalist, and has earned multiple awards, including the 2015 World Street Photography grand prize.

Lido Vizzutti

Lido Vizzutti lives in Missoula, Mont., and has been working as a professional documentary, commercial and editorial photographer for 15 years.

Paul Guay

Paul Guay is a screenwriter and script consultant whose movies have grossed over half a billion dollars. Paul co-wrote Liar Liar (1997), The Little Rascals (1994), and Heartbreakers (2001).

Christina Elson

Christina Elson joined the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets in 2015 to create its business strategy and operations. Christina is an expert in developing strategic, holistic, and systemic approaches to executing an organization’s mission and vision

Joey Clark

Joey Clark is a talk radio host, producer, and freelance writer. He is the host and sole producer of The Joey Clark Radio Hour which runs every night Monday-Friday on News Talk 93.1 WACV FM out of Montgomery, AL.

Lou Perez

Lou Perez is the head writer and executive producer of We the Internet TV (winner of the 2017 Webby Award for Variety in online film & TV) and half of the comedy duo Greg and Lou.

Hannah Earl

Hannah Ruth Earl, the Moving Picture Institute's talent associate, works on talent development programs, including recruiting and acquisitions for grants, internships, and masterclasses.

John Boyd

American composer, John Jennings Boyd, represents the vanguard of a new generation of composers equally adept at scoring with live orchestra, producing ambient soundscapes, and writing and creating commercially-minded tracks across all forms of modern media.

Carrie Sheffield

Carrie Sheffield is a Manhattan-based columnist and broadcaster. She is the founder of Bold, a digital news and cultural platform for a new generation of thinkers and creators. With Clay Aiken, Carrie co-hosts Bold TV, produced by Al Roker Labs.

Javier Garcia

A victim of the socialist and communist dictatorship in Venezuela, Honorary Campus Ambassador Javier Garcia now resides in the United States and is an international member of the American Institute of Architects.

Luis Henrique Ball

Mr. Ball is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GrupoCiencia and Allegheny Medical Systems LLC. He is also the Founder, Publisher and owner of panampost.com, an online bi-lingual publication dedicated to news and opinion about the Americas.

Sean Malone

Sean Malone is the Director of Media at the Foundation for Economic Education. Malone’s films have been screened at the Manhattan Film Festival, Winter Film Awards (NYC), Tupelo Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, Richmond International Film Festival, Anthem Film Festival, and the Nevada Film Festival.

Yaron Brook

Yaron Brook is the chairman of board of the Ayn Rand Institute, renowned best-selling author and host of the nationally syndicated Yaron Brook Show which broadcasts live on BlogTalk Radio and YouTube. Brook is also an internationally sought speaker, whose talks promote Capitalism, Inequality, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, Objectivism.

Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Nolan Brown is an associate editor at Reason. Her work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Playboy, Politico, The Week, and Time. Brown is also the founder and co-director of Feminists for Liberty. Brown is also the founder and co-director of Feminists for Liberty.

Christina Sandefur

Christina Sandefur is Executive Vice President at the Goldwater Institute. She also develops policies and litigates cases advancing healthcare freedom, free enterprise, private property rights, free speech, and taxpayer rights.

Lela Brunet

Lela Brunet is a visual artist. With her main subject being the female form, Lela explores the contrast created when the grace of the figure and the tension of energetic patterns and colors collide together. She has exhibited her work in multiple galleries and events throughout Atlanta, Georgia.

Jeff Andrade-Fong

Jeff Andrade-Fong has been at the intersection of tech and urban logistics for the last several years. He was an early stage employee at Lyft and now works at on-demand delivery startup Postmates. Jeff also co-founded Tech for Housing, a policy advocacy organization dedicated to rallying Bay Area tech workers around urban reform.

Jorge Jraissati

Jorge Jraissati is a Venezuelan student in the US, studying Economics at the Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, and is a FEE Campus Ambassador.

Kevin Lieber

Kevin Lieber hosts and produces Vsauce2, part of the most popular education network on YouTube. Vsauce’s videos have been viewed over 2 billion times and won both the 2016 Webby for Best Science & Education Channel and the People’s Choice award three years in a row.

Justin Goro

Justin Goro is a software developer with a background in economics. In both consulting and public blogging roles, he specializes in understanding and explaining the implications and limitations of decentralized systems with particular focus on the Ethereum ecosystem.

John Hasnas

John Hasnas is a professor of business at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and a professor of law (by courtesy) at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, where he teaches courses in ethics and law.

Matt Kibbe

Matt Kibbe is President and Chief Community Organizer at Free the People, an educational organization turning the next generation on to the values of liberty. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna.

Michael Lewyn

Michael Lewyn is an Associate Professor at Touro Law Center in Long Island, where he directs the school's Land Use and Sustainable Development Law Institute. His recent research focuses on the relationship between zoning and increasing housing costs in American cities.

Max Borders

Max Borders is the founder and Executive Director of Social Evolution. And also co-founder of the Voice & Exit event and former editor at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).

Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith is a cofounder of Quantierra, a Manhattan-based real estate/tech startup. He used to be a reporter writing about real estate, land use, and transportation.

Wolf von Laer

Wolf von Laer is Chief Executive Officer at Students For Liberty. Wolf received his PhD in Political Economy from King’s College London for work focused on entrepreneurship, the political economy of crisis, public choice and Austrian economics.

Wuilly Arteaga

Wuilly Arteaga became a symbol of Venezuela’s protest movement as he played patriotic hymns from his violin in the face of tear gas and rubber bullets. He studied at National System of Orchestras in Venezuela.

David Veksler

David Veksler is the Director of Marketing at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has worked as an information systems architect for companies including Match.com, Education First, and Liberty.me.

Tom W. Bell

Tom W. Bell is a member of Chapman University and Fowler School of Law. Bell has published papers on copyright, Internet law, polycentric law, prediction markets, and the Third Amendment.

Maura Lewit

Maura Lewit is a Freelance Make-Up Artist. Maura attended UCLA while training in Make-Up with Joe Blasco’s school of makeup.

Robert Viglione

Robert Viglione is the co-founder of Zen, a blockchain-based private borderless decentralized platform for communications and transactions. The technology is designed to support very high data survivability even in adversarial environments.

Ben Scafidi

Ben Scafidi is a professor of economics at Kennesaw State University. He is also a Friedman Fellow with EdChoice and a senior fellow with the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.

Meredith Bragg

Meredith Bragg is executive editor of Reason TV. His 2010 Reason video explaining the labor dispute between FedEx and UPS was nominated for a National Magazine Award. Bragg has won a documentary award from George Lucas, produced a cat video that was projected on the side of a bridge in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Kerry McDonald

Kerry McDonald is an education policy writer and unschooling advocate whose articles have appeared in Forbes, NPR, Education Next, Natural Mother Magazine, and FEE.org among others.

Alain Bertaud

Alain Bertaud is an urbanist and, since 2012, a senior research scholar at the NYU Stern Urbanization Project. Bertaud previously held the position of principal urban planner at the World Bank.

Chris LeDoux

Chris LeDoux is Supervisor at Crafty and a Partner/Owner. He launched Crafty Apes VFX that has been successful as the sole FX house to films such as Stranger Things Season 2 and the Award Winning Dominator – La La Land, among contributions to many others as well as television shows and commercials.

Julie Borowski

Julie Borowski is a political commentator living in the D.C. area. She is best known for her YouTube channel where she discusses current events in an entertaining way.

Tomasz Kaye

Tomasz is an independent animator, propagandist, and advocate for a stateless society. He's best known for the video George Ought to Help and its sequels.

Michael Tidwell

Michael Tidwell works as an infrastructure engineer at a blockchain startup, Tierion. He is founder of TAB, and CKO of the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy. Michael has dedicated the last 5 years to studying blockchain projects and has a variety of experience with distributed architecture in the enterprise setting.

Nick Gillespie

Nick Gillespie is an editor at large of Reason. He is a two-time finalist for National Magazine Awards and co-author, with Matt Welch, of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America (2011/2012). Along with writing, he produces videos and podcasts for Reason.

Robby Soave

Robby Soave is an associate editor at Reason.com. Forbes named him to the 2016 "30 Under 30" list in the category of law and policy. He is perhaps best known for his early skepticism of Rolling Stone's investigative reporting on sexual assault at the University of Virginia.

Nigel Ashford

Nigel Ashford is a Senior Programs Officer at the Institute for Humane Studies. He joined IHS from the United Kingdom where he was professor of politics and Jean Monnet Scholar in European Integration at Staffordshire University, England.

Tricia Beck-Peter

Tricia Beck-Peter is a graduate of Flagler College, with a B.A. in Economics and a minor in International Studies. She serves FEE as our Outreach Associate, and deals primarily with alumni relations and the Campus Ambassador program.

Marianna Brashear

Marianna is the Curriculum Development and Outreach Manager at the Foundation for Economic Education aimed at teaching the humane value and ethical principles of free markets to FEE’s student audience.

Charles C.W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke is the editor of National Review Online and a graduate of the University of Oxford, at which he studied modern history and politics. He is the co-host of the Mad Dogs and Englishmen podcast, and is a regular guest on HBO's (Real Time with Bill Maher).

Holly Fretwell

Holly Fretwell is a Research Fellow at PERC where she has focused her research on public lands policy for over two decades. As an outdoor enthusiast, Fretwell strives to enhance conservation through cooperation and entrepreneurship.

Zach Gerber

Zach Gerber is a Juris Doctor - University Of Miami School Of Law. He received Honors in Legal Writing, Legal Research. Prior to attending law school Zach was an intern at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington D.C and a clerk for the Honorable Judge John Thornton in Florida’s Eleventh Judicial.

Bill Glod

Bill Glod is Academic Talent Development Program Officer of Philosophy. He is responsible for managing a portfolio of philosophy and political theory faculty mentors, and he also directs the Summer Graduate Research Fellowship.

Garth Heutel

Garth Heutel is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin.

Valerie Hinkle

Valerie Hinkle brings a tremendous amount of experience and versatility to Prominence Films. She is directing/producing a docuseries on Female Entrepreneurs as a resource for young business creators.

Matthew Hurtt

Matthew graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 2009 with a degree in History and Political Science. Matthew currently works as the Outreach Manager for Terra Eclipse, lectures about grassroots activism for the Leadership Institute, and is involved in libertarian Republican politics.

Matt Lupo

Matt Lupo is an External Relations Manager at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He works as part of the Outreach team to develop and maintain strategic relationships with organizations and individuals in order to build awareness of Mercatus Center research and its value in policy reform.

Cliff Maloney Jr

Cliff Maloney Jr. is the President of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), a non-profit, youth organization based in Arlington, VA that boasts over 900 college chapters across the country. Cliff has appeared on FOX business, Reason TV, and has been published in TIME, The Hill, Huffington Post.

Dan Sanchez

Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor of FEE.org.

Sloane Shearman

Sloane Shearman is the Academic Marketing Manager at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She leads marketing for academic and student programs, assisting with recruitment for fellowships and highlighting their work in creative ways.

Katherine Swartz Hilton

Katherine Swartz Hilton, MA serves as executive director of The McNair Center for Entrepreneurism and Community Engagement at Columbia College. Katherine has 18 years of non-profit management and higher education experience in Columbia and Atlanta.

Allen T. Hyde

Allen is an Assistant Professor in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a quantitative scholar whose main research areas are stratification and inequality, urban sociology, work and occupations, and immigration.

Erin Keating

Erin Keating is vice president, communications and marketing at Stand Together. She works as a part of the leadership team to develop and drive the communications and marketing strategy and vision.

Mark Frazier

Mark Frazier is the CEO of Openworld Villages, is cofounder of Openworld Inc., a group specializing in regulatory reforms, land trusts, skills-sharing, and community association initiatives to awaken land values in economically struggling areas.

Lisa Roberts

Prior to joining Atlas Network, Lisa served as Executive Director for Friends of UFM, the U.S. foundation to support the mission of Universidad Francisco Marroquín. She is the founder of the Montana Policy Institute.

Jared H. H-Marshall

Jared H. H-Marshall is a director, writer, editor, and producer with 10+ years of industry experience. His professional career has brought him to many places around the globe as well as several years spent in the Studio system in Los Angeles, CA.

Bill Norton

Bill Norton is a public speaker and author on the fundamental, natural law principles of liberty and the U.S. Constitution. He has been volunteering for the National Center for Constitutional Studies, or NCCS, for 12 years updating educational material on the Constitution.

Steven Carse

Steven Carse is the CEO of King of Pops. He started the business in 2010 with his brother Nick after a life-altering trip to Latin America.

Lawson R. Bader

Lawson R. Bader is president and CEO of DonorsTrust, a community foundation engaged with donors and charities to promote limited government, free enterprise, and personal responsibility. He is a former columnist with Human Events, and holds degrees from Wheaton College and The Johns Hopkins University.

Mary Clare Amselem

Mary Clare Amselem is a policy analyst in the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. Her research and writing focuses on ways in which free market principles can inform higher education policy.

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Travel Information

Atlanta, Georgia

If you're flying, plan to arrive at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). FEEcon will be held at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta located on 265 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30303. There will be a room block available at the Hyatt, and there are numerous other lodging options nearby. The Hyatt has valet parking accessible from Peachtree Road and is conveniently located directly next to the Peachtree Center MARTA Station.

Additional details available here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who should register to attend FEEcon?
FEEcon is open to anyone who is interested in entrepreneurship or exploring economic thinking. We encourage people who are new to these ideas to apply, and all we ask is that you are respectful, intellectually curious, and willing to engage in the presentations and discussions.
How much does FEEcon cost?
For Students/Recent Graduates, registration is $149, and you'll have access to the FEEcon Kickoff event on Thursday June 7th, all Friday sessions, and all Saturday sessions. Limited travel, hotel and tuition reimbursement scholarships will be available soon.

For all other attendees, $379 opens your access to all conference sessions, plus FEE's Annual Retreat, which includes these VIP/Donor events: Friday luncheon, Friday evening reception, Saturday breakfast, Saturday lunch, Saturday evening reception, Saturday evening banquet dinner, and Sunday brunch.

If you register on or before March 31st you can take advantage of our early bird pricing for $50 off!

A group discount of 25% will be applied when you register 3 or more people.
When should I arrive?
For Students/Recent Graduates, sign-in begins on Thursday, June 7th from 2:00 to 5:00 PM.

For VIP/Donor attendees, you are welcome to attend all Friday sessions and may arrive anytime on Friday, June 8th.
How can I apply for a Tuition, Hotel and/or Travel Reimbursement Scholarship?
FEE offers a limited number of scholarships. We encourage you to register and apply early to increase your chances of being awarded the scholarship that best fits your needs. To apply for a scholarship, you will need to register as a Student/Recent Graduate and follow the prompts during the registration process.

Upon completion of the registration process, we will review your request for a scholarship and email you within 3-4 weeks to inform you whether or not you have been awarded a scholarship. You will have the option to cancel your registration. If you choose to do so you may be partially refunded. See the Cancellation Refund Schedule below for details.
Where do I park?
The Hyatt Regency Atlanta has valet parking which allows guests to have their vehicle parked in a secure underground parking garage. You can access the valet parking from Peachtree Road. Additional details.
What's the dress code?
Business casual attire for all sessions and social events. Cocktail attire for the VIP/Donor Dinner.
What about meals?
For Student/Recent Graduate attendees, we will provide coffee and bagels for breakfast. Student/Recent Graduate ticket holders are responsible for their own lunch and dinner. Don't stress. Peachtree Center Food Court offers several dining options and is conveniently connected to the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. Please take a look at the available options.

For VIP/Donor registrants, FEE will provide the following VIP/Donor events, which include food and beverages: Friday luncheon, Friday evening reception, Saturday breakfast, Saturday lunch, Saturday evening reception, Saturday banquet dinner, and Sunday brunch.
Where do I sleep?
We have reserved a large block of hotel rooms at a discounted rate with the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. The number of rooms are limited, so we suggest you book early to ensure you can take advantage of the discounted rate.
What days should I make my hotel reservation for?
For those with Student/Recent Graduate tickets we suggest you make your reservation for June 7th to June 10th, 2018.

For those with VIP/Donor tickets we suggest you make your reservation for June 8th to June 10th, 2018.
Can I share the hotel room and split the cost with another FEEcon attendee?
Of course. In fact, we encourage you to do this! If you know someone who is attending FEEcon and you would like to room with them go ahead and arrange that with the hotel. If you do not know anyone attending FEEcon and would like to find with a roommate, please join the FEEcon 2018 Facebook group.

You are responsible for coming to agreement with any prospective roommate and for coordinating the booking arrangements in the room block with your roommate.
When is the registration deadline?
Registration will close on May 7th, 2018. However, we will open up the ability to register for sessions before that date. Space is limited for sessions, so we encourage you to register for the event early so that you have the opportunity to choose the sessions that interest you as soon as we open up Session Registration.
Can international students register to attend FEEcon?
Yes. International students are welcome to register and attend. Please note that you are responsible for your own travel and for completing any necessary paperwork required by your country and the United States to obtain a visa.
How do I get a visa after I am accepted?
If you need a visa to enter the United States, contact the US Embassy or Consulate in your country and find out what options are available to you and their requirements. Be sure to do this as soon as possible as it may take a few weeks or months to complete the process. Once registered, if you need a letter from FEE, please submit the request here.
I confirmed my attendance but need to cancel. How do I do that?
To cancel, send an email FEEcon@FEE.org with FEEcon Cancellation Request in the subject line. Please include your full name and reason for cancelling.

A percentage of your registration fee may be refunded. See the Cancellation Refund Schedule below for details.
What is the Cancellation Refund Schedule?
- On or before April 15th, 2018: 90% of registration fee may be refunded
- Between April 16th and May 7th, 2018: 75% of registration fee may be refunded
- Between May 8th and May 24th, 2018: 50% of registration fee may be refunded
- On or after May 25th, 2018: No refund available
Where do I get the FEEcon mobile app for iOS/Android?

This is a private event hosted by FEE. FEE reserves the right to refuse registration and/or entrance and remove anyone from the conference. By participating, you agree to the Terms and Conditions. FEE reserves the right to modify these terms at any time.

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