Zack Smith to Highlight ‘Rogue Prosecutors’ at 2025 PA Leadership Conference
(Harrisburg, PA) – Zack Smith, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and co-author of the book Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers are Destroying America’s Communities will speak at the 2025 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference to be held April 3-5, 2025 at the Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania.
Announced speakers to date include the featured dinner speaker Kayleigh McEnany, former White House press secretary and current co-host of Outnumbered on the Fox News Channel; State Senator Scott Martin, Andrew Lewis of the Commonwealth Foundation, Steve Moore of the Heritage Foundation, Jonathan Williams from the American Legislative Exchange Council, U.S. Representative Scott Perry; Catalina Stubbe of Moms for Liberty; Pennsylvania Attorney General David Sunday, American Majority CEO Ned Ryun, U.S. Senator Dave McCormick; U.S. Representative Rob Bresnahan; Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity; Pennsylvania Auditor General Tim DeFoor; and U.S. Representative Dan Meuser.
The conference will also feature the popular State of the Conservative Movement panel moderated by Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, USA and featuring John Gizzi, White House correspondent for Newsmax, Dr. Paul Kengor editor-in-chief of the American Spectator and Jeff Lord of Newsmax.
The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference is the premiere gathering of public policy conservatives each year in the Keystone State. It is the largest and longest-running of the state-based conservative conferences regularly attracting a long list of conservative elected officials, scholars, journalists, and activists for three days of speeches, panel presentations, workshops, and networking.
Zack Smith is a Senior Legal Fellow and Manager of the Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
Zack served for several years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Florida. Prior to that, he spent two years as an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, which he joined after clerking for the Hon. Emmett R. Cox on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Zack received his undergraduate, master’s, and law degrees from the University of Florida. During law school, Smith served as the Editor in Chief of the Florida Law Review.
Please note that admission to the workshops is INCLUDED in the conference registration fee and no additional registration is required. A complete description of each workshop along with information on the workshop presenters is available at www.paleadershipconference.org.
Workshops to be presented on
Thursday, April 3rd from 8 AM until 11 AM:
Relationship Building, Margot Crouch
Leadership Imperatives, Andrea Raffle
Personal Branding, Heather Sellers
Fundraising Best Practices, Margo Crouch
Capozzi Adler PC
Art of the Deal: Winning at Negotiations
Louis J. Capozzi, Jr. Esquire
Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania
The Real Nature of Politics
Justin Greiss
Heritage Action for America
A Guide to Dismantling the Deep State
Stephanie Kreuz
Best in Ed
School Board Leadership: The Right Way
Laura Zorc, Best in Ed
Workshops to be presented on
Friday, April 4th from 8 AM until 11 AM:
Pennsylvania Family Institute
Truth on Weed: Examining the Harm with Marijuana Legislation
Dan Bartkowiak, Cheryl Allen, David N. Taylor
Commonwealth Foundation
Stopping Shapiro’s Energy Tax Hikes
Steve Bloom, Erik Telford, Andre Beliveau, Liz Stelle
Americans for Prosperity
Expanding the Liberty Movement:
Building Grassroots Momentum for Economic Prosperity
Mike Sylvester
Here are details of 2025 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference panel presentations:
How to Create a Better Pennsylvania:
Moderator: Andrew Lewis, Commonwealth Foundation
Panelists: Camera Bartolotta, State Senator; Robert Leadbeter, PA House Freedom Caucus Chairman; Judy Ward, State Senator
Efficiency and Accountability Through Regulatory Reform
Moderator: Emily Greene, Americans for Prosperity-PA
Panelists: Dawn Keefer, State Senator; Dallas Kephart, State Representative;
Kristin Phillips-Hill, State Senator
A New Generation of Conservatives
Moderator: Joy Johnson, Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association
Panelists: Electra Janis, Washington County Commissioner; Thomas Kutz, State Representative; Joe Picozzi, State Senator
New Media Leading America First
Moderator: Cliff Maloney, Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania
Panelists: Jack Posobiec, Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec; Rose Tennent, Rose Unplugged; Steve Turley, Turley Talks Podcast
Do No Harm: Protecting Our Children
Moderator: Dan Bartkowiak, Pennsylvania Family Institute
Panelists: Brianna Howard, Independent Women’s Forum
Judy Ward, State Senator
Kurt Miceli, Do No Harm
Register for the 2025 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference TODAY at www.paleadershipconference.org.
