Thanks for coming today on this beautiful friday and excited to introduce to you john burtka president and chief executive officer of isi. He graduated from Hillsdale College with degrees in french and christian studies and earned a graduate degree in theology from la faculte. Jean calvin, an ex in provence, france. Johnny began his career at isi, where he served as a development officer. He returned to isi after four years at the american conservative magazine, where he served as executor of director and acting editor. Johnny has appeared on fox news and fox business and has written for the washington post, the Richmond Times dispatch. The first things the American Mind and the intercollegiate review, among other publications. He has been a lincoln fellow at the Claremont Institute and has participated in academic fellowships at Washington College and the trinity forum. Johnny lives in pennsylvania with his wife amanda. Good morning and welcome. Thank you to the Heritage Foundation fo
Thanks for coming today on this beautiful friday and excited to introduce to you john burtka president and chief executive officer of isi. He graduated from Hillsdale College with degrees in french and christian studies and earned a graduate degree in theology from la faculte. Jean calvin, an ex in provence, france. Johnny began his career at isi, where he served as a development officer. He returned to isi after four years at the american conservative magazine, where he served as executor of director and acting editor. Johnny has appeared on fox news and fox business and has written for the washington post, the Richmond Times dispatch. The first things the American Mind and the intercollegiate review, among other publications. He has been a lincoln fellow at the Claremont Institute and has participated in academic fellowships at Washington College and the trinity forum. Johnny lives in pennsylvania with his wife amanda. Good morning and welcome. Thank you to the Heritage Foundation fo
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Good evening, everybody. Im Betsy Fischer martin, the executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University. And welcome to our virtual series, women on wednesdays. We are glad you could join us this evening. To those of you need one of our events, wpi, is a nonprofit and nonpartisan institute in School Public affairs that aims to close the gender gap in political leadership. Now we offer academic and practical Campaign Training and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women in politics and leadership. And we are so pleased to be cohosting tonights conversation with the first ladys association for research and education, otherwise known as claire and amys first ladies initiative, which seeks to highlight the significant contributions of americas first ladies. And there is no doubt that the subject of tonights discussion edith wilson is among the most influent and powerful president ial spouses in history. In fact, for several months from late 1919