2025 Fall Briefing with Michael Shellenberger

Friday, October 10, 2025
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Omni Viking Lakes Hotel
2611 Nordic Way
Eagan, MN 55121

Admission: $150+

Ticket Sales have ended for this event.

Join Center of the American Experiment on Friday, October 10th for an evening with Michael Shellenberger at the beautiful Omni Viking Lakes Hotel in Eagan

Michael Shellenberger has a warning for Minnesota: don’t become California. The author, journalist, gubernatorial candidate and California resident has been telling anyone who will listen about the policy mistakes made in the Golden State regarding crime, homelessness, environmental alarmism and leadership. That message is especially urgent for Minnesotans as Tim Walz stubbornly puts our state on the same path as California, copying policies restricting vehicle sales, coddling criminals and giving free benefits to illegal immigrants. You won’t want to miss Shellenberger’s timely and relevant message on public policy as he joins us for our 2025 Fall Briefing.

The evening will start with unique reception stations and cash bars with ample seating in the ballroom for those who wish to sit with friends as well as high tops for those who prefer to mingle. Enjoy views of Viking Lakes from the beautiful outdoor balcony. VIP ticket-holders will be able to join Mr. Shellenberger for a hosted bar and dinner before moving to the ballroom for the program and dessert.

Schedule

5:30 PM General and VIP Dinner Receptions

7:00 PM Keynote speech by Michael Shellenberger followed by moderated Q&A

Ticket sales close at 10:00 PM on Wedenesday, October 8.

About Michael Shellenberger

Michael Shellenberger is the founder of Public, the C.B.R. Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin, and the best-selling author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities (HarperCollins 2021) and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (HarperCollins 2020). He is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award winner, Dao Journalism Prize-winner, and Founder of Civilization Works.

Michael has broken major stories, including on the Twitter Files, for which he won the 2023 Dao Award for journalism; the Censorship Industrial Complex; San Francisco’s cash incentives for homelessness; the “Amazon Forest are the lungs of the world” myth; climate pseudoscience; climate anxiety; the U.S. government support for fracking; and forest management, climate change, and California’s fires.

Michael offers testimony as a journalist and policy expert to the U.S. Congress on a range of issues covering free speech, censorship, and the environment. He has testified on the need for UAP transparency (November 2024); censorship in Brazil (May 2024); Censorship Industrial Complex, Part 2 (November 2023); AI and censorship(September 2023); climate change and public health (April 2023); Big Tech censorship(March 2023); the Censorship Industrial Complex, Part 1 (March 2023); climate change and the global energy crisis (September 2022); Texas & California electrical grid failures (April 2021); climate change and agriculture (February 2021); climate change and health (August 2020); climate change and energy (July 2020); and nuclear energy(January 2020).

Michael lives in Berkeley, California.