Take a look at what has happened
just in the last seven days!
Young America’s Foundation capped off a successful year of premier student conferences with a fully-subscribed
Fall College Retreat in Washington, D.C. Students at this one-of-a-kind conference heard insights from top conservative speakers, including
Dr. Ben Carson,
Dinesh D’Souza,
Allie Stuckey,
Larry O’Connor,
Jason Mattera, and others.
In addition, YAF’s one-of-a-kind
Virtual Pass allowed
20,000 attendees to have the opportunity to participate in the conference online and ask questions of the notable speakers.
Earlier this week, thousands of students and community members turned out for
Ben Shapiro’s exclusive fall campus lecture tour for Young America’s Foundation. As part of the
Fred Allen Lecture Series, Shapiro reached capacity audiences at the
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee,
Ohio State University, and the
University of Pittsburgh.
Not surprisingly, these lectures faced leftist obstacles in the days and hours leading up to the YAF events.
Young America’s Foundation
threatened the University of Pittsburgh with a lawsuit for their attempt to stop Shapiro from speaking on campus through discriminatory security charges.
In addition, Antifa activists attempted to protest Ben Shapiro’s lecture at the Ohio State University and were overwhelmingly denounced by the media for their hateful comments.
Despite these leftist schemes, more than
500,000 online viewers have watched YAF’s exclusive lecture content with Ben Shapiro on YouTube in the last five days alone!
In addition to our Shapiro lectures, YAF also hosted
Dinesh D’Souza at
American University. While there, YAF staffer Kyle Ferrebee was assaulted by a triggered leftist as he helped students prepare for the campus speech.
Michael Knowles continued his Covfefe on Campus lecture tour at the
University of Wisconsin – Whitewater,
Michigan State University, and the
University of Michigan.
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke to an eager crowd of young people at
Beloit College in Wisconsin.
Fox News’s
Jesse Watters and Senator
Rick Santorum spoke to halls of students at
Stetson University and
Southern Methodist University, respectively, as part of the
Robert and Patricia Herbold Lecture Series.
To cap it all off, YAF received scores of applications from students across the country eager to bring
Ben Shapiro’s #onlyatYAF tour to their campuses this spring!
Schools from
New York University to the
University of California – Irvine to
Texas A&M to
Montana State University have applied to host Shapiro, who is exclusively speaking for YAF on campus this school year.
While the year comes to a close, Young America’s Foundation continues to bring speakers to schools nationwide! Still to come in November, Senator
Rick Santorum will visit
New York University; Attorney General
John Ashcroft will speak at
Northwestern University, and
Christina Hoff Sommers will head to
Lock Haven University. And that’s just a few!
See our full line up here!
We often say our slogan is
“The Conservative Movement Starts Here.” And that has certainly been true these past few weeks. From coast to coast, students have lined up for blocks to attend YAF’s campus lectures. Young people traveled across the country to participate in our breakthrough Fall College Retreat.
No other group offers the number of events and conservative campus programs that Young America’s Foundation provides. (In fact, many other organizations actually report on what we accomplish!)
