Policy for the People Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy

Robert Dillon, Senior Vice President at Agenda-Global, Martin Jirusek, Assistant Professor at Masaryk University, Czech Republic and Justen Keating, founder of Keating Global Risks join Rainey Center VP Mia Heck to discuss energy security in the days preceding Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Rainey Center VP Mia Heck talks with Randy Pate about how the Trump Administration stabilized the individual health insurance market while increasing competition and choice for consumers.

Ashley Arabasadi with Management Sciences for Health, Dr. Neil Vora, a physician with Conservation International and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Columbia University and Pasha Majdi, Senior Director for U.S. Policy and Government Affairs at Conservation International discuss preventing the next pandemic

Sarah welcomes guests Clarence Edwards from the Friends Committee on National Legislation and Steve Hayward, Senior Resident Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, to discuss why the ecomodern approach to climate policy has universal appeal.

In this episode, Sarah sits down with one of her old professors, Dr. David Rehr - the director of the Center for Business Engagement at George Mason University. Sarah and Dr. Rehr discuss where he got his start - working as a staffer on Capitol Hill, to becoming a CEO, and his jump back into politics as a professor at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. Dr. Rehr digs into how these life experiences helped to shape him as a person, and also his views on policy.

In this special COP26 edition of our podcast, Rainey Center CEO Sarah Hunt discusses what to expect from the annual UN climate change conference in Glasgow. Leading conservative climate voices Nick Loris from the Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions, and Chris Barnard from The Conservation Coalition discuss conservatives at COP having a voice at the table.