Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies (Heritage‑linked policy institute)

The Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies operates as an economic policy research and advisory institute whose output and affiliation supply credentialing and institutional backing for policy actors. In the current material it is led by Director Patricia “Patty” Calhoun and functions as a public-facing credential used to signal a nominee's ideological bent and policy expertise. The Institute appears to produce research, advise policymakers, and serve as provenance for partisan positioning; no internal funding or wider hierarchy is shown, though it is described as Heritage-linked in context.