Center of the American Experiment

Nonpartisan, tax-exempt, public policy and educational thinktank for conservative and free market ideas in Minnesota

Leading conservative thinktank in Minnesota. Founded in 1990 by Mitch Perlstein, former staffer in the Department of Education during the Reagan Administration.

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Leadership & Staff

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Tom Mason Editor and Publisher, Thinking Minnesota

• Thinking Minnesota editor and publisher

Pari Cariaga Donor Relations and Events Coordinator, Center of the American Experiment

• Donor Relations and Events Coordinator

Kristen Fuzer Sheehan Development Director, Center of the American Experiment

• Development Director

Robert Benson Greater Minnesota Coordinator, Center of the American Experiment

• Greater Minnesota Coordinator

Peter Zeller Director of Operations, Center of the American Experiment

• Director of Operations

Catrin Thorman Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment

• Policy Fellow

John Phelan Economist at Center of the American Experiment

• Economist

Tom Steward Center of the American Experiment Communications Director and an Investigative Reporter

• Communications Director and Investigative Reporter

Kathy Kersten Senior Fellow at Center of the American Experiment

• Senior Fellow

Ryan Miske Partner, Faegre Baker Daniels

• Co-Chair, Young Leadership Council

Board Members

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Brent Robbins General Mills

• Director

Kenneth W. Morris The Apercu Group

• Director

Lowell W. Hellervik Omni Leadership

• Director

Tara J. Anderson TJA Business Law

• Director

Elam Baer North Central Equity

• Director

Chuck Spevacek Meagher & Geer, PLLP

• Director

Thomas J. Rosen Rosen's Diversified, Inc.

• Director

Ted Risdall Risdall Marketing Group

• Director

Rick Penn

• Director

Rob Parish Sawmill Management

• Director

Donors

Hendry Family Foundation

• grant · 25,000 USD

Altria Group, Inc. formerly Philip Morris; the largest U.S. tobacco company

• Donation/Grant

Members

Norman Timothy Slade great-great-grandson of James Jerome Hill, Jr., founder of the Great Northern Railway.

• Member (past)

Upper Midwest Law Center Right wing law firm specializing in "public interest" anti-union and anti-activist lawsuits.

• Member

Memberships

State Policy Network right-wing think tank network

• member