Amy O. Cooke joins the John Locke Foundation as its new CEO. Cooke takes the top job at JLF after serving as executive vice president of the Independence Institute, Colorado’s free-market public policy think tank. Cooke speaks with JLF Vice President Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
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