WPC’s Young Professionals is excited to announce a new format for the 2022 Young Professionals Annual Dinner! Join us for an evening of exclusive access, premium networking and a great evening celebrating free-market ideas.

 

WE ARE CURRENTLY SOLD OUT! Please contact Valerie Lucas to join the waitlist at vlucas@washingtonpolicy.org

This year’s event will include…

• Extended networking reception with open bar, food stations, wine tasting, wine toss, and more!
• Opportunity to hear from keynote speakers LIVE, in-person with live Q&A
  Exclusive to Young Professional attendees!
  • 70^th Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
  • Filmmaker and Author, Christopher Rufo
• Join live stream of WPC’s 2022 Annual Dinner in special auditorium to watch:

Table wine included!

• Mike Pompeo’s full speech at the Annual Dinner
• Update from Washington Policy Center’s research team
• Presentation of WPC’s 2022 Champion of Freedom Award to the family of Sen. Doug Ericksen

• After party with live band and over 1,000 attendees from the evening’s events.

For over 25 years, Washington Policy Center has held its Annual Dinner events to bring people together to hear about how free-market solutions are improving lives not only in Washington state, but across the nation. In 2014, WPC extended the sold-out, 1,200-person event to include Young Professionals to engage the next generation of free-market leaders in the region’s most sought-after policy gala.

WPC’s Young Professionals Annual Dinner brings together an under 40 crowd to celebrate free-market ideas and connect with like-minded individuals.

5:30pm: Registration open | 2^nd Outside Regency Ballroom

5:30pm: YP Networking Reception | 2^nd Floor Regency Ballroom

7:00: Program featuring Mike Pompeo, Chris Rufo | 3^rd Floor Auditorium

7:55 PM | Join Main WPC Livestream | 3^rd Floor Auditorium

9:00 PM | After Party | Grand Ballroom Foyer, 2^nd Floor

To register, visit www.wpcdinner.com or contact Valerie Lucas at vlucas@washingtonpolicy.org or (509) 624-4811

WPC's 2022 Annual Dinner Keynote Speaker:

70th US Secretary of State and former CIA director, Michael Pompeo!

Register Below

Michael R. Pompeo served as the 70th United States Secretary of State from April 2018 through January 2021. He previously served from January 2017 to April 2018 as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

As our nation's most senior diplomat, Mr. Pompeo helped craft U.S. foreign policy based on our nation's founding ideals, putting America first. America became a massive energy exporter and a force for good in the Middle East, cementing real peace through the work of the Abraham Accords. Mr. Pompeo placed particular emphasis on renewing alliances with key allies, including India, Japan, Australia, and South Korea.

Mr. Pompeo's time at the State Department marked the end of naive engagement with the Chinese Communist Party, pulling back the curtain shielding the egregious acts of the CCP that threaten American jobs and freedoms. He focused efforts on calling out and punishing perpetrators of attacks on basic human dignity in places like Venezuela, North Korea, Iran, Nigeria, China, and elsewhere. Mr. Pompeo also led a team that executed America's largest-ever global repatriation effort in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Prior to joining the Trump administration, Mr. Pompeo was serving in his fourth term as congressman from Kansas' 4th District. He served on the House Intelligence Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee, and the House Select Benghazi Committee.

Writer, filmmaker and researcher Christopher Rufo

Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute. He is also a contributing editor at City Journal where his writing explores a range of issues including critical race theory, homelessness, addiction, crime, and the decline of cities on America’s west coast.

In addition to his roles at City Journal and the Manhattan Institute, Rufo is also the founder and director of American Studio, a public policy research center that also serves as an aggregator for his investigative journalism and filmmaking work.

Rufo previously served as executive director at the Documentary Foundation, where he directed four films for PBS, including America Lost, which explores life in Youngstown, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, and Stockton, California. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and a former Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy.

You can view his work at his website, https://christopherrufo.com/

Register below to see his keynote speech at our Annual Dinner in Bellevue!

For questions and sponsorship opportunities at our YP Annual Dinner, contact WPC’s Young Professionals Coordinator Valerie Lucas at vlucas@washingtonpolicy.org or (509) 624-4811.