Richard Lorenc

Hello! I'm Richard Lorenc. I'm an entrepreneurial startup business leader with extensive experience in the public policy arena and technology consulting. I have experience delivering coalitions, business development, event planning, and recruiting talent. I'm also very tech-savvy, certified in Apple technology and with lots of experience as a website developer, and development manager with third parties.

Richard Lorenc is the co-founder and executive director of the Liberty Markets Fund for Freedom, a community foundation recruiting small donors to free market policy groups. He also serves as chairman of the Chicago chapter of America’s Future Foundation (AFF), a networking and educational organization that develops political leadership among young professionals, as well as the organization’s National Chapter Coordinator. Richard Lorenc also sits on the board of directors for the nonpartisan Coalition to Reduce Spending, the only national organization aimed solely at advocating for reduced federal spending as a means of balancing the budget. Richard Lorenc comes with years of experience in the public policy world, most recently at the Illinois Policy Institute, where he served as Director of Outreach. There, he launched and directed the group’s Liberty Leaders volunteer program. His writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Chicagoist, The Huffington Post, Gaper’s Block, the Daily Caller and others. Richard Lorenc is a 2006 graduate of Emory University, where he studied International Studies, Chinese Studies, and History, and where he played the double bass as a member of the Emory Symphony Orchestra. He also is an alumnus of the Institute for Humane Studies.

Director of Outreach at Illinois Policy Institute

June 2008 - December 2009

recruit and train "€œLiberty Leader" volunteers (663 by November 2009), yielding over $4 billion in taxpayer funds available for public scrutiny manage two full-time Liberty Leader Regional Manager staffers speak at events on policy and volunteerism at events launched and direct Milton Friedman Internship program–hired 22 interns between spring and fall of 2009 served as interim director of marketing and communications (09/2008-12/2008), managing print products, redesigning e-newsletters, and maintaining websites create and manage policy-specific websites, including OpenIllinois.org. managed IllinoisOpenGov.org project, placing State of Illinois payroll, retirement benefits, and vendor expenditures online for public access design and layout print products, including “Compass” magazine, policy reports and “Policy Point” summaries design and manage distribution of weekly online publications, including “Compass Online” and the “Liberty Leaders Progress Report.” write monthly columns on Examiner.com film and edit video for special projects, including “Charter Schools: Changing Lives.”

Consultant at Free Market Communications Consulting

February 2008 - August 2009

Print product development and Website project management clients include: Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Emory University, Tennessee Center of Policy Research, Institute for Truth In Accounting, Illinois Policy Institute, Schaumburg Freedom Coalition, Log Cabin Republicans, and Foundation for Economic Education

Communications Manager & Web Editor at The Sam Adams Alliance

November 2006 - February 2008

managed development and content on samadamsalliance.org, achieving an average of 2500 site views per week directed organization’s video initiatives, resulting in thousands of YouTube views managed first-year “Sammies” contest, soliciting nearly 80 entries for consideration directed the organization’s design identity program managed four classes of communications department interns; presented at events regarding web technologies, media bias, and the organization

Communications Associate at Americans for Limited Government

May 2006 - November 2006

redesigned and managed organization’s website coordinated communications for four state-based initiatives (CA, ID, OK, WA) designed brochures and website graphics for state-based campaigns wrote editorials, press releases and letters to the editor for state-based campaigns

Owner/Lead Consultant at Mister X Consulting

May 2002 - October 2006

Computer and website development consultant.

National Chapter Coordinator at America's Future Foundation

August 2011

Recruit and mentor chapter leaders in New York, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Minneapolis, Denver and Atlanta.

Co-founder/Executive Director at Liberty Markets Fund for Freedom

January 2010

Started community foundation dedicated to raising small donations from liberty-minded Americans never before asked to give to pro-liberty think tanks. Recruited board of directors, and developed business and finance plans. Made initial disbursements to five pro-liberty organizations in December 2011.

Chairman, Chicago chapter at America's Future Foundation

August 2009

Lead eight-person committee for organization identifying and developing young conservative and libertarian leadership in Chicago. Hold regular events discussing free markets and individual liberty.

Director of Communications at Lorenc+Yoo Design

January 1998

create and maintain www.lorencyoodesign.com, analyze website traffic create, maintain and write for company blog: www.janondesign.com author articles for various trade publications, including Exhibitor magazine and SEGDdesign magazine write, edit client proposals and RFQs for exhibit, signage and museum design projects write and edit quarterly e-newsletter content

Emory University

2002 – 2006

BA

mythology, social media, science fiction, public policy, space exploration, entrepreneurship, Apple, big felines,