Richard Lorenc

Cofounder, Liberty Markets LLC

Richard Lorenc is cofounder of Liberty Markets LLC, a financial intermediary that connects charitable donors of modest means with entrepreneurial non-profit policy organizations advocating free markets, individual freedom, and limited government.<br /> <br /> Additionally, Lorenc serves as chairman of the Chicago chapter of America’s Future Foundation, a networking and educational organization that develops leadership among young conservative and libertarian professionals. He comes with years of experience in the nonprofit public policy world, most recently at the free market Illinois Policy Institute, where he served as director of outreach. There, he launched and directed the group’s Liberty Leaders volunteer program, growing it to 700 volunteers throughout Illinois. <br /> <br /> Lorenc’s work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Chicagoist, Huffington Post, the Rockford Register Star and others. In 2009, Lorenc contributed to an anthology entitled ‘Reinventing the Right: Conservative Voices for the New Millennium.’ Additionally, he writes about Chicago and Illinois politics for the online newspaper Gaper’s Block.<br /> <br /> Lorenc is a 2006 graduate of Emory University, where he studied International Studies, Chinese Studies and History, and where he continues to play the double bass as a member of the Emory Symphony Orchestra. He is an alumnus of the Institute for Humane Studies.