Speakers
Kimberly O. Dennis
President, Searle Freedom Trust
Kimberly O. Dennis is president of the Searle Freedom Trust, a grantmaking foundation established by the late Daniel C. Searle to advance public policy research on issues of limited government and individual liberty. She has served in this capacity since 1996. From 2001 through 2005, Ms. Dennis also directed the National Research Initiative, a Searle-funded program of the American Enterprise Institute. She served as executive director of The Philanthropy Roundtable from 1991 to 1996. She has also held a variety of positions with nonprofit educational and policymaking organizations, including the John M. Olin Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the Pacific Research Institute. She is chairman of the board of DonorsTrust, a trustee of the Earhart Foundation, and a director of the Property and Environment Research Center. She has also served on the boards of the W. H. Brady Foundation, the Independent Women’s Forum, and the Indiana Policy Review, and as a member of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal. Ms. Dennis began her career as a social worker in northern Maine.
