activism
- spring 2007. Wrote and submitted a free-market health care proposal, “FAIR: Free-markets, Affordability, & Individual Rights,” to Colorado’s “Blue Ribbon” Commission on Healthcare Reform. Reached the “‘Short List’ of Proposals For In-Depth Assessment.” Available at www.WhoOwnsYou.org.
- April 2006. Anticipation or Resilience? Managing the health, safety, and environmental risks of nanotechnology, presentation at Science and Technology In Society: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. [pdf of presentation] [policy analysis (pdf)]
- first author on three peer-reviewed articles completed for Ph.D. in electrical engineering.
quotes & interviews ∙ letters to the editor
Independence Institute publications 
Articles
- Universal” Health Care Kills (full version w/ linked references)
- Colorado Daily, Feb. 24 [print scan], Hawaii Reporter, Feb 29,
- Salida Mountain Mail, March 3
- The Individual Mandate as Collective Punishment
- The Collective Punishment Model, TCS Daily, Jan. 14 (version with references here.)
- Colorado Springs Gazette, January 31
- Independence Institute (with references)
- Rocky Mountain News, (on-line only) February 7
- Pueblo Chieftain, February 10 [print edition]
- Government Control is Bad for Your Health, Rocky Mountain News, September 26, 2007 [print edition]
- Medicaid is Hazardous to Your Health, Boulder Daily Camera, August 26, 2007 [print edition]
- Don’t Model State Reforms on Medicaid, Denver Post, August 5, 2007 [print edition]
- June 17, 2007: Interviewed by John Andrews on Backbone America, 710 KNUS Denver about health care policy [mp3]
- Policies cripple market: Government controls violate rights, raise costs, cut access, Denver Rocky Mountain News, April 28 2007 [print edition]
- Government-run auto repair? Yes!, Daily Camera, Guest Opinion (satire on health care), February 11 2007 [print edition]
- October 2004. Appeared on two hour-long local television programs discussing the presidential election
- Power to the people, not bureaucrats, Colorado Daily, Local Voices, April 2004 [print edition]
- Open Letter to a ‘Living Wage’ Advocate, Colorado Freedom Report, January 2004
- Donate your own penny, not your neighbor’s, Daily Camera, Guest Opinion, Oct. 2003 [print edition]
Guns on campus? We’d be Safer, Daily Camera, Guest Opinion, June 2003 [print edition]
Giving up personal safety for a gun-free campus, Colorado Daily, Guest Opinion, March 2003 - Saying “No” to red light traffic cameras, Colorado Freedom Report, January 2003
- Comprehensive publications list (1993-present)
2001-’04. Event conception, coordination, and oversight as co-chair and webmaster of Campus Libertarians at University of Colorado. Wrote & presented funding proposals for public lectures by leading scholars and activists that drew hundreds of students. Planned logistics, designed, wrote, & distributed advertising through local print media.
archived website newspaper ads & posters
Articles about event speakers:
- Wendy McElroy (prostitution debate)
- Randy Barnett (Anarchy is not Chaos)
- Tom Palmer (Globalization is Great! poster published in Cato’s Letter)
- George H. Smith (voting and freedom)
- Ron Paul (The Constitution)
- Dave Kopel (terrorism and civil liberties)
- Sheriff Bill Masters (drug war)
- Jeffrey Schaler, Addition is a Choice. I’m interviewed in this Colorado Daily article)
