2025 Schedule

PROGRAM OUTLINE

— Monday, April 7th —

[INTRO] Welcome: All for the Want of a Horseshoe Nail
9:00 am – 9:10 am

Erica Payne, founder and president, Patriotic Millionaires, and co-author of Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer.

[PANEL] Happily Ever After or Irreconcilable Differences? The Inherent Tension Between Capitalism and Democracy
9:10 am – 9:35 am

Damon Silvers, Senior Advisor and former Special Counsel, AFL-CIO, has published numerous articles on corporate governance, financial regulation, and labor rights.
John Driscoll, Chair, Magnit Global, a workforce management firm with over 700,000 employees, and co-author of Pay the People: Why Fair Pay is Good for Business and Great for America.
Elizabeth Wilkins, President and CEO, Roosevelt Institute, and has held key leadership roles in the FTC, White House, and Office of Attorney General for D.C.

[POPUP] What the People Want (or at Least Are Really Sure They Don’t Want)
9:35 am – 9:40 am

Leah Greenberg, Co-founder, Indivisible, one of TIME 100’s Most Influential People, and organizer of national Hands Off Rallies in 50 states on April 5, 2025.

[PANEL] Gradually, then Suddenly: From Garden Variety Corruption to Kleptocracy
9:40 am – 10:05 am

Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Senior Editor & Reporter, ProPublica, and author of The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.
Donald Sherman, Executive Director & Senior Counsel, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and previously served as Senior Counsel to Senator Claire McCaskill and Chief of Staff at HUD’s Office of General Counsel.
Michael Waldman, President and CEO, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, former Director of Speechwriting for President Bill Clinton, and author of The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America.

[PANEL] The Daydreams of Oligarchs
10:05 am – 10:30 am

Nabil Ahmed, Economic and Racial Justice Director, Oxfam America, member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Equitable Transition, and co-founder of the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
Nancy MacLean, Professor of History at Duke University, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, and frequent guest on shows including Democracy Now!, Real Time with Bill Maher, and The ReidOut with Joy Reid.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies, NYU, author of New York Times bestseller Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, and consultant on the 2022 Academy Award-winning film Pinocchio.

[POPUP] Meet the Bros (Crypto and Wall Street and PE, Oh My!) 10:30 am – 10:35 am

Dennis Kelleher, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Better Markets, former member of the Biden-Harris Transition team, and one of Washingtonian Magazine’s Most Influential People of 2024.

[PRESENTATION] The Enablers: How the Offshore Financial System Supports the New Colonialism
10:35 am – 10:45 am

Brooke Harrington, Economic Sociologist, Dartmouth University, author of Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism and Capital Without Borders, and advisor to global tax authorities like the OECD and EU Parliament. She recently appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss the Broligarchy of tech billionaires.

[PODIUM PRESENTATION] The Real Reason to Tax the Ultrarich Has Nothing to Do with Money
10:45 am – 10:55 am

Stephanie Kelton, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Stony Brook University, author of New York Times bestseller The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy, and one of Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in Finance.

[PRESENTATION] $10 Trillion Ways to Save Democracy
10:55 am – 11:05 am

Liz Pancotti, Managing Director at Groundwork Collaborative and former advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), with research featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Bloomberg.

[PRESENTATION] Indeed, the Only Thing That Ever Has…
11:05 am – 11:25 am

Dr. Abigail Disney, Emmy-winning Documentary Filmmaker, Philanthropist, Activist, and Patriotic Millionaires member. Her film “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is streaming now.
Rutger Bregman, Historian, New York Times Bestselling Author of Humankind: A Hopeful History and Utopia for Realists: And How We Get There, and co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition.

[PANEL] Never Underestimate the Power!
11:25 am – 11:45 am

Helaine Olen, Managing Editor, American Economic Liberties Project, columnist for MSNBC, and author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry.
Ashley Allison, CEO of Watering Hole Media and CNN commentator.
Ana María Archila, Co-director of the New York Working Families Party, former co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, and 2022 New York Lieutenant Governor candidate.

[PRESENTATION] Proud to Pay More (and/or Stop the Penguin Tariffs)
11:45 am – 11:50 am

Guillaume Rambourg, Founding member, Patriotic Millionaires UK, former equity fund manager, and Founder and Trustee of the Rambourg Foundation.
Sabina Vohra-Miller, Founding member, Patriotic Millionaires Canada, Doctor of Public Health candidate at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Toronto), and founder of Unambiguous Science.

[CLOSING REMARKS] Let’s Get to Work
11:50 am – 12:00 pm