Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will take the helm of the nation’s premier conservative youth organization Young America’s Foundation starting in 2021.
In a Monday appearance on Fox and Friends, Walker announced that he had been selected by the YAF board of directors to assume the role of YAF president from current President Ron Robinson, effective Feb. 1, 2021. In an interview with Wisconsin State Journal, Walker said that his new position would give him a far greater opportunity to change America on a national level than if he were to run for office in 2022 or 2024.
“I felt that I could have as great or greater an impact in terms of public service working with YAF and the work that they do with youth across the country as I’ve had the pleasure and honor of doing in elected office up until this point,” Walker told the Journal.
Walker’s new position with YAF comes at a big time for the organization, which currently oversees more than 500 student chapters on high school and college campuses throughout the country. In addition to promoting conservative ideals and values on their campuses, YAF helps student chapters bring big-name conservative speakers to their schools, organizes activism conferences across the country, and even provides legal resources to students whose colleges and universities attempt to suppress their free speech by blocking events or speakers that feature conservative ideas.
Walker’s role as YAF president will follow current president Ron Robinson’s 42 years of service. According to a recent press release, the organization noted that in his more than four decades of service, Robinson essentially built the modern conservative movement, while consistently defending the ideals and principles of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
“Over his more than four decades as YAF’s president, Ron Robinson built the modern Conservative Movement in America,” a press release from the organization stated. “His bold vision to reach generations of young people with conservative ideas included YAF’s purchase of President Reagan’s beloved Rancho del Cielo in 1998 and his work to successfully defend students’ rights from campus quads to the Supreme Court.”
John Patrick is a contributor to Red Alert Politics.
