Evan Baehr
FROM:
The Redneck Riviera, also known as the Panhandle of Florida.
HEROES:
Apostle Paul, John Calvin, James Madison, George Washington, Mike Bloomberg, Charles Koch
PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT:
Convincing my wife to marry me.
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT TEACH AT THE SUMMIT:
Marriage. Relationship management. Personal branding. Emerging challenges of Sharia law.
SOMETHING YOU HOPE TO LEARN AT THE SUMMIT:
Microfinance. Community organizing. Cognitive psychology. How liberals can possibly believe in federal solutions to social problems.
SOMETHING YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH IN YOUR WORK:
Motivating a team.
SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY:
Beaches, children, reading, new people
SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU ANGRY:
Massive government intrusion into civil society.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY:
Parents met at a Catholic high school in my hometown. Mom raised two kids and ran the household. Dad is a super personable physician who works 13 hour days and loves every minute of it.
AN IDEA TO MAKE THE 30SUMMIT EVEN BETTER:
Make sure we know about each other ahead of time; and don’t schedule too much for us to do once there.
BIOGRAPHY:
Evan is special assistant for technology and politics to PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Baehr graduated cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Princeton Tory, president of the College Republicans, director of Princeton Votes, president of Students for Academic Freedom, and founder of Princetonians in the Nation's Service. Baehr later served as a legislative aide for foreign affairs to Rep. Frank Wolf and as the co-staff director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, where he helped found the Task Force on International Religious Freedom. While in Washington, D.C., he founded Conservatism on Tap, which now boats over 1,400 members. Baehr recently graduated summa cum laude from Yale Divinity School, where he studied ethics, law, and Islam, and co-founded the Yale Forum on Faith and Politics. While at Yale, Baehr cofounded the Yale Conservative Council, a pan-university organization to coordinate and synergize the conservative movement. Baehr was the recipient of the James Madison Program Fellowship, the Center for Human Values Fellowship, Princeton's Lilly Endowment Thesis Prize, the Civitas Fellowship, and Yale's William F. Burger Fellowship. Baehr has also worked for the American Enterprise Institute, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. This fall Baehr will begin an MBA at Harvard Business School. His wife, Kristina, a graduate of Yale Law School, is expecting their first child in September 2009.
