
History and Ethics Forum: Expanding the Cyber-Security Workforce
Dr. Heather Wilson, President University of Texas at El Paso. Her presentation was titled “Expanding the Cyber-Security Workforce.” She is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and has served as Secretary of the Air Force. She represented New Mexico in the U.S. Congress for 10 years and was President of the South Dakota School of Mines. She graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar. She is a member of the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation, and in 2022 was elected inaugural chair of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities.

History and Ethics Forum: The Essence of Freedom: Liberty from the Ancient Greeks to the American Founding
Dr. Bradley Birzer, Professor of History and the Russel Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College. In addition to his teaching duties at Hillsdale, Birzer is co-founder of The Imaginative Conservative website, and the author of several books, including Russell Kirk: American Conservative and American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll. His presentation was titled "The Essence of Freedom: Liberty from the Ancient Greeks to the American Founding.”