Sarah Curry joined the ITR Foundation team in 2022, bringing over a decade of public policy experience. She previously served as the Policy Director at the Nebraska based Platte Institute and as the Director of Fiscal Policy Studies at the North Carolina based John Locke Foundation. Her work focuses on fiscal issues such as taxes and the state budget as well as federalism, local government, transparency, regulation, and a host of other policy areas. Before entering the policy world, Sarah worked in state government and the private banking sector.

Sarah and her husband, Paul, moved to Iowa in 2016 and enjoy raising their family of three boys on their acreage property outside of Glenwood. She earned a Doctor of Business Administration in Finance where her dissertation focused on municipal debt. Her hobbies include officiating soccer matches, camping and hiking with her family, and volunteering for her church.

John Hendrickson joined the ITR Foundation team in 2017. Before becoming Policy Director for ITR Foundation, Hendrickson served as a Research Analyst with Public Interest Institute, a public policy research group, and as a researcher for the Heritage Foundation. His articles have been published in many newspapers across Iowa including the Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette, and the Lee Enterprises newspapers.

Hendrickson earned both his BA and MA degrees in History from the University of North Dakota. He specializes in American political and constitutional history.

Vance Ginn, Ph.D., is an accomplished free-market economist who works to let people prosper. He is the founder and president of Ginn Economic Consulting where he provides high-quality research and trusted insights on how to affect change at the federal, state, and local levels.

Dr. Ginn's experience includes time in public policy, government, and academia. He is a fellow or scholar at several think tanks, including at Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and Americans for Tax Reform. He previously served as the associate director for economic policy ("chief economist") of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, 2019-20, where he advised the OMB’s senior staff on economic and fiscal policy matters, resulting in $4.6 trillion in savings over a decade and the need for a fiscal rule in the President's FY 2021 Budget. Dr. Ginn was the former chief economist at TPPF and policy director for TPPF's Alliance for Opportunity campaign, a multi-state poverty relief initiative, where collectively he fought for and won many free-market reforms to let people prosper during multiple legislative sessions.

He has taught many economic courses at several institutions of higher education, including Sam Houston State University and Texas Tech University, where he won a teaching award. Dr. Ginn has appeared on leading national and state news shows, such as America Reports on Fox News and Cavuto: Coast to Coast on Fox Business. His commentaries have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Washington Post, National Review, and other national and state publications. Dr. Ginn earned his BBA in economics and accounting and a Ph.D. in economics at Texas Tech University.

He graduated from home school in South Houston, Texas, resides in Round Rock, Texas with his wife and three kids, and is a drummer who played for a top rock band in Houston, Texas.

John C. Mozena is the president of the Center for Economic Accountability, where he works to advance transparency, accountability and free-market-based reforms of state and local economic development programs across the United States.

In addition to his public policy experience as a former vice president at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan, Mozena also brings significant private-sector experience to his work as a contributing scholar for the ITR Foundation. A long-time marketing and communications professional and former journalist, he spent two decades in private-sector agency and corporate roles where he worked with Fortune 500 manufacturers and technology companies, economic development authorities, trade associations, commercial real estate developers, a major regional tourism bureau and convention center and other real-world stakeholders in economic development policy.

Mozena’s work regularly features in local and national media. He is a regular contributor to National Review, and his byline has also appeared in national outlets including The Hill, RealClearPolicy, the Daily Caller, The American Conservative and even Baseball Prospectus, as well as major local newspapers such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Detroit News, Kansas City Star, Las Vegas Review-Journal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Tennessean and many more.

He is a fellow at the Better Cities Project, an alumnus of the AEI Leadership Network and a graduate of the Atlas Network Academy, including its Executive Accelerator leadership development program. He lives in Michigan with his wife and son.