Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.co...

A proud native Texan, Angela is a resident of McKinney where she has lived, served, and raised a family for over two decades. She was born on Valentine’s Day 1963 in New Braunfels, Texas, and was adop...

A proud native Texan, Angela is a resident of McKinney where she has lived, served, and raised a family for over two decades. She was born on Valentine’s Day 1963 in New Braunfels, Texas, and was adopted and welcomed into her new family the day after her birth. She was raised in Mansfield, TX, where her father worked at Bell Helicopter and her mother was a teacher’s aide. Angela attended Baylor University, where she earned a degree in Mathematical Science and became the first person in her family to graduate from college. She continued her graduate studies and earned and Masters in Education from the University of Houston – Clear Lake. An educator by profession and passion, Angela Paxton has 22-years of experience in public and private schools as well as homeschooling. As a teacher, she’s previously taught pre-calculus, trigonometry, geometry, and college algebra. After five years of teaching math and mentoring high school students at Legacy Christian Academy, for the past six years she had the privilege of working with the LCA families as a school guidance counselor. Angela and her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, met at Baylor University. They have been married for 31 years and have four grown children: Tucker, a software engineer; Abby, a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Air Force at Goodfellow Air Force Base; Mattie, a junior education major at Texas A&M; and Katie, a freshman nursing major at Texas A&M. A pro-life conservative, Angela has been an outspoken defender of the unborn, and her personal story of adoption was published in McKinney Women Making a Difference. The Paxton’s attend Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano.

Tom Giovanetti is president of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), a public policy research organization based in Dallas, Texas. Prior to joining IPI in 1992, Mr. Giovanetti was a freelance pol...

Tom Giovanetti is president of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), a public policy research organization based in Dallas, Texas. Prior to joining IPI in 1992, Mr. Giovanetti was a freelance policy writer and the director of product development for a small manufacturing company in Dallas, where he designed several patented products and gained real-world experience in how taxes and regulations affect small business. Mr. Giovanetti writes for IPI and for other publications on a wide variety of policy topics including tax reform, intellectual property, Social Security personal accounts, communications policy, Internet governance, education reform, the broadband revolution, and out-of-control government spending. In addition to being published in leading papers including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Investor's Business Daily and The Dallas Morning News, he also appears regularly on a number of radio and television programs. Mr. Giovanetti represents IPI many national and international organizations, including the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), where IPI is an accredited NGO. IPI was also accredited as an observer organization with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), where he argued against UN involvement with Internet governance, and with the UN's Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Mr. Giovanetti also participated during meetings of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, and represents IPI as a stakeholder during trade agreement negotiations such as the current Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).