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Tony Woodlief
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Tony Woodlief is the Executive Vice President of State Policy Network (SPN). He has served in this role since 2013. SPN supports state-based non-profits and think tanks that believe in or advocate for the benefits of federalism, community self-
governance, and personal freedom.
Woodlief is the author of I, Citizen, which was published by Encounter Books in 2021. His work has appeared in publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Image. He lives in North Carolina.[1]
Career
Tony Woodlief has served as Executive Vice President of SPN since 2013. According to his company profile, he “helps oversee SPN operations, supports SPN’s president in her guidance of the leadership team, and helps ensure the organization’s projects and programs measure success, evolve as SPN grows, and maintain alignment with [their] vision and mission.”
Prior to SPN, Woodlief was president of the Bill of Rights Institute, an organization that creates resources to help educators teach children about the U.S. Constitution and American founding. Before that, he was president of and research fellow at the Market-Based Management Institute, which teaches non-profits the management principles that spokesmen for the large oil-and-gas company Koch Industries attribute to its success. Woodlief worked as a management consultant at Koch Industries for several years. He also served as president of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and as a vice president at the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation.
He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan, an MFA in creative writing from Wichita State University, and a B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina.
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