Thank you for your support of Project 42! As a friend of conference sponsor Steve Gordon and/or a key Project 42 donor: We invite you to attend the NW Sanity Forum, held August 19-20 on Lake Washington as our guest – valid for complimentary conference registration for you and another guest but we need you to officially register.

Registration includes access to all conference events, including meals. There is a room block available at the event location, details will be sent following registration.

SCHEDULE

Tuesday, August 19th

o 11:00 am to 12:30 pm: Check in, Meet & Greet, and Books Available/Signings with Dr. Gad Saad and other speakers. Lunch will be available between 11:30 am and 12:30 pm (Downstairs level Grand Prefunction and Grand Ballroom)

o 12:30 pm: Welcome from Steve Gordon and Brian Heywood, and emcee Christopher Rufo; Congressman Michael Baumgartner (R-Spokane), represents Washington's 5th Congressional District; member of the House Judiciary Committee, House Foreign Affairs Committee, and House Committee on Education and the Workforce (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

o 1:00 pm: Dr. Gad Saad. Professor; Evolutionary Behavioral Scientist; Best-Selling Author of The Parasitic Mind. Moderator - Ari Hoffman (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

o 2:15 pm: Michael Shellenberger. Best-selling author, Apocalypse Never & San Fransicko; Dao Winner: Time, Hero of Environment; C.B.R Chair in Politics, Censorship, & Free Speech, UATX. Moderator - Jonathan Choe (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

o 3:15 pm: Break

o 3:30: Christopher Rufo. Senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, America’s Cultural Revolution. Moderator - Corey DeAngelis (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

o 4:30 pm: Closing Panel, featuring the afternoon’s speakers and moderators (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

o 5:30 pm: Reception (hors d'oeuvres available and no-host bar, Grand Prefunction foyer)

o 6:30 pm: Dinner Program featuring keynote speakers Brandi Kruse and Jonathan Choe (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

Wednesday, August 20th

o 6:30 to 8:00 am: Breakfast buffet (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

o 8:00 am: Dr. Matthew Wielicki. Isotope Geochemist, Earth Science Professor-in-exile, Author of Irrational Fear Substack and forthcoming book Irrational Fear: Climate Change. Moderator - Todd Myers (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

o 9:00 am: Abigail Shrier. Award-winning journalist and bestseller author, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Contributing Editor at The Free Press. Moderator - Brandi Kruse (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

o 10:00 am: Break

o 10:15 am: David Bahnsen. Managing Partner, Founder of The Bahnsen Group, Author of Full Time; There’s No Free Lunch, CNBC and FoxBusiness Guest Commentator, Contributor to National Review. Moderator - Vijay Bonapati (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

o 11:15 am: Closing Panel, featuring the morning’s speakers and moderators (Downstairs level Grand Ballroom) 

o Noon: Grab & go lunch (Downstairs level Grand Prefunction foyer)

Also in attendance, John Papola, host of Dad Saves America and founder Emergent Order Foundation, and Billboard Chris, Canadian activist who opposes transgender health care for minors and what he refers to as "gender ideology"