Category: FTE Blog

How Do We Ensure the Ideas of a Free Society Are Passed On?
Young people do not look with awe or a sense of wonder at an iPhone, a computer, or the incredible…


Recent Alumni Profile – Jillian Huels
This time last year Jillian Huels was reluctant to apply for FTE’s Economics for Leaders program. By the following October…

Where We are Wednesday – College of William and Mary
It’s a William an Mary Wednesday! We still have spaces available for both students AND teachers on this beautiful historic…

Alumni Spotlight – Ruby Au – Nashville 2011
Ruby Au, has traveled near and far. Since participating in the Economics for Leaders program at Vanderbilt in Nashville, she moved…

Alumni Spotlight – Madeleine Overturf – Chicago ’09
Madeleine Overturf is quite literally in the spotlight these days as a reporter at WBOC-TV in Sussex County. Before her…

Where We are Wednesday – UC Berkeley
Where We are Wednesday… The University of California, Berkeley! Home of the blue and gold Oski bears (blue for the…

Recent Alumni Profile – Angela Wei
Angela Wei attended Economics for Leaders last year at Rice University in Houston, TX. About her experience she says, “If…

From the Gorges of Ithaca to the Skyscrapers of Seattle…
We are proud to announce our 2017 summer sites and dates! This year we are all over the country at…

In Memory of Daniel Weinberger, EFL ‘07
It is with great sadness that we report on the passing of Economics for Leaders alum, Daniel Weinberger. Daniel attended the 2007 Skidmore College EFL program, and returned the next year for the EFL reunion in Williamsburg, VA.