[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_column_text] THOMPSON AYODELE [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text] Thompson Ayodele is the Director of Initiative for Public Policy Analysis, a public policy think tank promoting the institutions of free society based in Lagos, Nigeria. He attended Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where he...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_column_text] CHRISTOPHER ARPS [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Christopher Arps is a member of the Project 21 black leadership network; a managing partner with the public affairs and communications consulting firm Red Tail Strategies, LLC; and the cofounder of Move-On-Up.org. He’s the afternoon...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_column_text] AKINDELE AKINYEMI [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text] Akindele Akinyemi is a member of the national advisory council of the black leadership network Project 21. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of the Detroit-based One Network, a nonpartisan organization seeking to...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_column_text] HORACE COOPER [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="1199" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Horace Cooper is a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board and a legal...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] ROBERT J. SMITH [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] FORMER SENIOR FELLOW [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="1202" img_size="full" onclick="custom_link" qode_css_animation="" link="https://nationalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/smith.jpg"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] From 2005 until his passing in 2024, R.J. Smith was a senior fellow in environmental policy at The National Center for Public Policy Research.  He also served...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] BONNER COHEN, PH.D. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] SENIOR FELLOW [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="1198" img_size="full" onclick="custom_link" qode_css_animation="" link="https://nationalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cohen.jpg"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Bonner R. Cohen is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, where he concentrates on energy, natural resources, and international relations. He also serves as...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] HORACE COOPER [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] SENIOR FELLOW & PROJECT 21 CHAIRMAN [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="1199" img_size="full" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" qode_css_animation="" link="https://nationalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cooper.jpg"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Horace Cooper is a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board and a...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] DAVID ALMASI [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Vice President [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="1196" img_size="full" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" qode_css_animation="" link="https://nationalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/almasi.jpg"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Starting as an intern in 1987, David Almasi previously served as executive director and director of media for the National Center for Public Policy Research before becoming the organization's...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] JEFF STIER [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] FORMER SENIOR FELLOW AND DIRECTOR, RISK ANALYSIS DIVISION [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="1203" img_size="full" onclick="custom_link" qode_css_animation="" link="https://nationalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/stier.jpg"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Jeff Stier is a former Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., where he headed its Risk...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] JUSTIN DANHOF, Esq. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="42442" img_size="full" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" qode_css_animation="" link="https://nationalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/danhof.jpg"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Justin Danhof served as Executive Vice President of the National Center for Public Policy Research until April 2022. Previously he served as the National Center's General Counsel, as...

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