Staff

The Wyoming Liberty Group staff comes from a diverse set of backgrounds and life experiences, but we are united in our commitment to the principles of essential citizenship.

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Susan Gore started Wyoming Liberty Group in 2008 as a voice for Wyoming’s founding principles of a lively, robust, responsible citizenry served by an efficient and responsive government that observes boundaries proper to it.

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Charles Curley lives in Thermopolis, trading on his 30 years experience as a software engineer. He has been involved in politics for many years, including the successful campaign to repeal FDR’s gold prohibition. He is widely read in history, economics and philosophy, and brings that to bear in a principled approach to politics.

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Regina Meena has over nineteen years of experience in public policy development, administration and legislative affairs in the areas of employment, health care, education and developmental disabilities.  She was a fellow in Governor Jim Geringer’s office working in areas of business development and water rights.  Her private enterprise experiences also included grant writing and contract management.  Regina holds bachelors degrees in Psychology and Education, and a Master degree in Public Administration from the University of Wyoming.

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Benjamin Barr serves of counsel with the Wyoming Liberty Group. Barr is an attorney with a national practice specializing in the area of constitutional law. He has litigated constitutional concerns in federal courts throughout the nation in favor of individual liberty. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court relied on a brief drafted on behalf of the Wyoming Liberty Group to reshape its reasoning in Citizens United v. FEC.

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Stephen Klein serves as staff attorney and research counsel with the Wyoming Liberty Group, focusing on free speech, health care freedom, land rights, economic freedom, and other liberty interests. His prior legal scholarship includes gun rights and election law. He holds a bachelors degree in politics from Hillsdale College and a law degree from Ave Maria School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the Ave Maria Law Review and President of the Ave Maria Federalist Society. He is licensed to practice law in Illinois and is an inactive member of the Michigan State Bar.

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Sven Larson‘s research on health policy, taxes and government budgeting and entitlement reform has been published by several free-market think tanks, including the Heritage Foundation, Civitas Institute, South Carolina Policy Council and the Wyoming Liberty Group. He has also provided his expertise in radio and TV interviews. He holds a Ph.D. in social sciences with major in economics and has taught economics at colleges in three different countries.

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Maureen Bader comes to the Wyoming Liberty Group from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Maureen’s articles have been published in major Wyoming and Canadian daily newspapers, and she has appeared on TV and radio calling for lower taxes and government accountability. Maureen worked in Public Affairs with the British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. Before that, she was the Manager of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at the Prince Rupert Port Authority.

Maureen completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the Universidad Internacional de Mexico in Mexico City and her MBA from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.  Maureen is an artist who has exhibited her paintings throughout British Columbia and in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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Amy Edmonds comes to the Wyoming Liberty Group with six years of experience serving in the Wyoming Legislature. During her time in the House of Representative she served on the Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, the Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, the Revenue Committee and the Appropriations Committee. She has also worked in the non-profit world as the Executive Director of the Wyoming Association of Public Charter Schools. As a native of Wyoming’s neighbor to the east – Nebraska – Amy likes to borrow a statement once made by Wyoming’s former Governor Stan Hathaway, “I wasn’t born in Wyoming, but I got here as fast as I could.”

Amy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science from the University of Wyoming.

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Chad Evans, a Wyoming native, has been with Wyoming Liberty Group for the past two years. He is currently the Development Coordinator and the comptroller, and also responsible for video and podcast production. Chad holds his bachelors degree in Finance from the University of Wyoming.

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Mandy Ludtke brings her experience in the fields of corporate sales and hospitality to the Wyoming Liberty Group where she is the Outreach and Events Coordinator. Mandy, a Wyoming native, is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science.

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Bruce Edward Walker was managing editor of InfoTech & Telecom News for The Heartland Institute, where he was also a senior fellow and currently serves as a telecommunications and information technology policy advisor. Prior to his tenure at Heartland, he was science editor of MichiganScience magazine and communications manager for the Property Rights Network at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He is a regular contributor to the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.

Bruce has published opinion pieces in the National Review Online, The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller, the Boston Globe, the Detroit News and the Lansing State Journal. He has also written on culture for The American Culture blog and The Michigan View, an online opinion journal sponsored by the Detroit News, film and literature for The Weekly Standard and The Freeman magazines, and is author of several CliffsNotes.

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