Tony Woodlief is the State Policy Network’s senior vice president and senior fellow in SPN’s Center for Practical Federalism, which equips state and local elected officials with tools to embrace and protect self-governance. His essays have been published widely, including in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and The Washington Post, and he has appeared on Fox News, C-SPAN and radio programs across the U.S.
Woodlief is the author of the 2020 book I, Citizen: a Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-Governance. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Wichita State University.