Cato Institute

Educational program - cato hosts public events and conferences in order to engage diverse audiences on our research and policy prescriptions. Cato also proactively invests in the next generation through its student programs. These include our cato internship program and john russell paslaqua intern seminar series, our student briefing program, and cato university, which teaches college students from around the country about america's founding principles of individual liberty, limited government, and free enterprise. Our sphere program supports middle and high school educators with the knowledge and tools to overcome polarization and advance civil discourse on contentious issues in the classroom.

Communications & external affairs - cato scholars engage and educate broad audiences on our policy prescriptions by disseminating our research through speaking engagements, social media, briefings, op-eds and blogs, podcasts, television and radio appearances, and our websites, which receive over 11 million visits annually. We have invested significantly in building a cato digital program to showcase this content in a dynamic, engaging, and accessible way through all these channels. Cato scholars and government affairs personnel meet with and educate government officials and their staff on a variety of public policy issues, advancing solutions based on the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Cato hosts a quarterly congressional fellowship program geared to share our research and foster greater engagement on major public policy issues. Scholars regularly offer congressional testimony related to their fields of research.