Founder of Free To Choose Network to Speak Dec. 6

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Bob Chitester

Bob Chitester, founder and chair of the board of the Free To Choose Network, will speak to students, faculty and staff of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas on Tuesday, Dec. 6.

Chitester's talk, which is free and open to the public, will be from 3:30-4:45 p.m. in the auditorium of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development at the Walton College.

Chitester is best known for creating Milton Friedman's landmark 1980 public television series "Free To Choose." A best-selling book by the same title resulted from the series. Free To Choose Network includes a production arm, Free To Choose Media; an educational initiative, izzit.org; and a publishing arm, Free To Choose Press.

With more than 40 years of experience creating programs and series for public television and as a past president of the Erie public television station WQLN, Bob Chitester continues to be creatively involved in the production of programs and series for Free To Choose Media and izzit.org. The Free To Choose Network website says that Chitester "has aimed to expose a world hindered by big government to Friedman's concepts of limited government, individualism and the U.S. Constitution."