Speakers — Abundance Conference

Abundance 2024 Speakers

Skanda Amarnath

Executive Director of Employ America
Jennifer Anastasoff

Founder and Executive Director, Tech Talent Project
Alex Armlovich

Senior Housing Policy Analyst, Niskanen Center
Jon Askonas

Assistant Professor of Politics, the Catholic University of America
Nicholas Bagley

Professor of Law at the University of Michigan
Timothy Bartik

Senior Economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Gracelin Baskaran

Director of the Critical Minerals Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Emily Bass

Associate Director of Federal Policy for Food and Agriculture, The Breakthrough Institute
Vicki Been

The Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at NYU School of Law
James-Christian Blockwood

Executive Vice President, Partnership for Public Service
Daniel Correa

Chief Executive Officer, the Federation of American Scientists
Max Bodach

Chief of Staff, Foundation for American Innovation
Kyle Bridgeforth

Partner and Accounts Manager at Bridgeforth Farms
Sara C. Bronin

Founder & President of National Zoning Atlas
Nikki Chiappa

Associate Director of Federal Policy, Climate and Energy, The Breakthrough Institute
Patrick Collison

Co-founder and CEO, Stripe
Jason Crawford

Founder, The Roots of Progress
Arnab Datta

Managing Director of Policy Implementation, Employ America
Jerusalem Demsas

Staff Writer at the Atlantic
Eli Dourado

Chief Economist, The Abundance Institute
Christopher Elmendorf

Professor, UC Davis School of Law
Xan Fishman

Senior Director of the Energy Program, the Bipartisan Policy Center
Jane Flegal

Market Development and Policy Lead at Stripe Climate and Frontier
David Garcia

National Policy Director for Up For Growth
Kumar Garg

President, Renaissance Philanthropy
Ashley George

Policy Associate, Employ America
Nicholas Glover

Vice President, Build to Zero, Environmental Defense Fund
Erica Goldman

Director, Science Policy, Federation of American Scientists
J.D. Grom

Senior Advisor to the Secretary on CHIPS Implementation
Samuel Hammond

Senior Economist, The Foundation for American Innovation
Lauren Harper Pope

Co-Founder, WelcomePAC
Devin Hartman

Policy Director, Energy and Environmental Policy; Resident Senior Fellow, R Street
Henry Honorof

Director of the Coordinating Team, Welcoming Neighbors Network
Thomas Hochman

Policy Manager, Foundation for American Innovation
Derek Kaufman

Founder and CEO, Inclusive Abundance Initiative
Kevin Kosar

Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Insitute
Cheryl Lombard

Senior Program Director — Power, Infrastructure, and Minerals, ClearPath
Amy Liu

Presidential Advisor and Senior Fellow – The Brookings Institution, Brookings Metro
James MacDonald

Research Professor in Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland
Jenny Mattingley

Vice President of Government Affairs for Partnership for Public Service
Ben Metcalf

Managing Director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley
Marcela Mulholland

Deputy Director of Partnerships Carbon Removal Alliance
Joshua New

Director of Policy for SeedAI
Ted Nordhaus

Founder and Executive Director, The Breakthrough Institute
Ryan Norman

Senior Policy Advisor for Third Way, Climate Energy Program
Adam Ozimek

Chief Economist at Economic Innovation Group
Chayenne Polimédio

Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Virginia Postrel

Contributing Editor, Works in Progress Magazine
Arati Prabhakar

Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology.
Molly Reynolds

Senior Fellow, Governance Studies at Brookings
Mara Rudman

Professor at the Miller Center at University of Virginia
Santi Ruiz

Senior Editor, Institute for Progress
Daniel Schuman

Executive Director of the American Governance Institute
Robert Shea

CEO, GovNavigators
Vincent Smith

Director, American Enterprise Institute Agricultural Policy Studies Program
Kathy Stack

Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy and the Federation of American Scientists
Xochitl Torres Small

Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, U.S Department of Agriculture
Derek Thompson

Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Michael Thorning

Director of the Structural Democracy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center
Alex Trembath

Deputy Director, The Breakthrough Institute
Samantha Tweedy

CEO, The Black Economic Alliance
Seaver Wang

Co-Director, Climate and Energy, The Breakthrough Institute
Tamara Winter

Commissioning Editor, Stripe Press
Gary Winslett

Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the International Politics and Economics Program at Middlebury College
Matthew Yglesias

Editor, Slow Boring
Layla Zaidane

President and CEO, Future Caucus