Thank you for joining us for our Eastern Washington Annual Dinner, the largest gala dinner event of its kind in the region. Nearly 700 top business and community leaders from all over Eastern Washington joined with us to celebrate our FIVE year anniversary with our very first standalone Annual Dinner in Spokane!

Watch the dinner by tuning into TVW at the following times or by clicking below.

• Sunday, October 19^th at 9pm
• Saturday, October 25th at 9pm
• Sunday, October 25 at 10am

Photos from the dinner...

Featured Eastern Washington dinner speakers:

Fmr. Congressman J.C. Watts and
Forbes columnist Amity Shlaes

Former Congressman J.C. Watts is the chairman of the J.C. Watts Companies. He was elected to Congress from Oklahoma in 1994 and served for eight years, rising to the fourth-ranking leadership position once held by Dick Cheney, Jack Kemp and Gerald Ford. Congressman Watts served on the House Armed Services Committee and was the author of the Community Solutions Act of 2001, President Bush’s faith-based initiative. He also co-authored the American Community Renewal and New Markets Act signed by President Clinton. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. in journalism and while there became a college football star. As quarterback, he led the Sooners to Orange Bowl victories in 1980 and 1981 and was voted MVP.

Amity Shlaes is a columnist for Forbes Magazine, a New York Times best-selling author and a presidential historian. She currently chairs the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and recently earned acclaim for her book Coolidge, which details how the nation’s 30th president cut taxes, reduced the national debt and balanced the budget. Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan listed it as one of the best books of 2013. Shlaes is the current director of The 4% Growth Project at the George W. Bush Institute, a former member of The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board and serves as an associate professor of economics at New York University’s School of Business. She graduated from Yale University magna cum laude.

and WPC's Champion of Freedom Award Recipient

Dr. Shelley Redinger

Superintendent of Spokane Public Schools

Dr. Shelley Redinger is Washington Policy Center’s 2014 Champion of Freedom Award recipient. Dr. Redinger is the Superintendent of Washington’s second largest school district – Spokane Public Schools. She is the only public school superintendent in the state of Washington who led her district to become a charter school authorizer. Dr. Redinger is one of the state’s leading public school reformers. In addition to becoming a charter school authorizer, Dr. Redinger has led the effort to cut administrative costs in Spokane Public Schools and move those dollars into the classroom.  She received her B.A. and M. Ed. from Washington State University and her M. Ed. and Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of South Carolina.

For more information, please contact Chris Cargill
phone (509) 570-2384  •  ccargill@washingtonpolicy.org