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David Vasquez

Senior Policy Analyst, American Prosperity and Energy & Environment

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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David Vasquez is from Ripon, California, and serves as a Senior Policy Analyst for American Prosperity and Energy & Environment at AFPI. Previously, David served in the policy debate world as a founding director of the policy debate team at Concordia-Chicago. Before this, Vasquez served as a development and policy intern through the Charles Koch Foundation’s Koch Internship Program. He is also the co-founder of the Helmsmen Institute, which provides thousands of students in speech and debate with professional training and resources to hone their rhetoric, presentation, public speaking, and policy analysis skills. Vasquez graduated from Concordia University Irvine, majoring in history and political thought, with a minor in law and politics. He was senior captain of the debate team, finishing his senior year as the highest-ranked collegiate debater in the United States among several hundreds of competitors. In his free time, he enjoys ultimate frisbee, rooting for the Oakland Athletics, and researching the impact of tax evasion laws on American expatriates. 

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Debt,  Inflation,  Energy,  Environment, 

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