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Table Talk: "Family, Policy, and Economics: How Do We Form a Coherent Strategy for the Future?" with Dr. Kevin Roberts

Wed, Feb 06

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The Clay Pit

How can public policy help, or at least not harm, the family, the "first society"? Join us for dinner and conversation with Texas Public Policy Foundation Executive Director Dr. Kevin Roberts (History, UT-Austin). Please RSVP soon, as seating is limited to 20 people!

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Table Talk: "Family, Policy, and Economics: How Do We Form a Coherent Strategy for the Future?" with Dr. Kevin Roberts
Table Talk: "Family, Policy, and Economics: How Do We Form a Coherent Strategy for the Future?" with Dr. Kevin Roberts

Time & Location

Feb 06, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

The Clay Pit, 1601 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA

About The Event

Kevin Roberts, Ph.D., is executive director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He has twenty years of experience as a teacher, professor, headmaster, and college president, and has been involved in a number of education reform initiatives around the country.

Roberts’ love for Lone Star liberty began during his days as a conservative graduate student in Austin. After earning his Ph.D. in American history from The University of Texas, Roberts served as a history professor in New Mexico before starting his own K-12 school, John Paul the Great Academy, in his hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana. Most recently, Roberts served as president of Wyoming Catholic College, which the New York Times described as being full of “cowboy Catholics” for refusing federal student loans and grants. Both schools led by Roberts have earned regular recognition for being among the top Catholic schools in the nation.

As a scholar of the Constitution, the…

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