Forum on Leadership 2025: Higher Education and Democracy
Panel featuring Dr. Ben Sasse, former President of the University of Florida and former U.S. Senator from Nebraska; Dr. R Gerald Turner, President of SMU; and Dr. Melva Wallace, President and CEO of Huston-Tillotson University, moderated by Robin Berkley, the Ann Kimball Johnson Director of Education at the Bush Institute.
Forum on Leadership 2025: Restoring Trust in the Media
Watch the conversation featuring Martin Baron, former Executive Editor of The Washington Post and Jessica Yellin, founder of News Not Noise, moderated by Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, the Kelly and David Pfeil Fellow at the Bush Institute
Watch the conversation featuring Salim Asrawi, Co-Founder and President of Texas de Brazil, and Daniel Lubetzky, Founder of Builders Movement and KIND, moderated by Anne Wicks, the Don Evans Family Managing Director of Opportunity and Democracy at the Bush Institute.
How a VLP alumna broke down employment barriers for military spouses and dependents stationed abroad
Featuring: Michael Bailey
Beth Conlin is a 2021 Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program alumna and an expert on Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs). She spoke with the George W. Bush Institute's Deputy Director of Leadership Programs Michael Bailey about how SOFAs have historically prevented military spouses and dependents from seeking employment while stationed abroad and how she used the lessons learned in VLP to change this.