Susan Allen, former first lady of Virginia, meets with young students following a special premier and reading of her children’s book, The Remarkable Ronald Reagan: Cowboy Commander in Chief.
Foundation students and supporters gather in the Center’s entryway next to a 5,000-pound section of the Berlin Wall—a special exhibit sponsored by Harold Knapheide and his family.
seminars, and leadership retreats. They are eager to learn more about conservative ideas. The Reagan Ranch Center provides Young America’s Foundation with tremendous facilities to pass on President Reagan’s ideas. Some seminars focus on the nuts and bolts of campus activism, giving students the tools needed to influence their peers and hold effective events on their own campuses. Other seminars examine the great thinkers who influenced Ronald Reagan—conservative giants including Russell Kirk, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Frank Meyer. Still others cover the most pressing issues of the day and introduce young people to conservative solutions. Reagan Ranch conferences and seminars feature some of the brightest minds and leaders of the Conservative Movement such as Vice President Dick Cheney; Governors George Allen, Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, and Scott Walker; Senators Ted Cruz, Jim DeMint, Ron Johnson, and Mike Lee; Speakers John Boehner and Newt Gingrich; Congresswoman
Michele Bachmann; Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; President Reagan’s son, Michael Reagan; and best-selling authors Michelle Malkin, Brad Thor, and Ann Coulter, among others. The Reagan Ranch Center is also open to general community audiences. The monthly Reagan Ranch Roundtable luncheon series welcomes prominent conservative leaders to Santa Barbara. Designed especially for the central coast community, the luncheons advance the principles that Ronald Reagan championed and expose new audiences to our mission. Students, supporters, and new friends gather to hear from speakers such as Jonah Goldberg, Dennis Prager, Karl Rove, Ben Stein, Ambassador John Bolton, Nonie Darwish, John Stossel, and many others. Holly Burwell was just a high school student when she attended her first Young America’s Foundation Reagan Ranch conference. Her words speak volumes: “I have always been taught to measure a lifetime by the number of lives that have been changed because of it. Young America’s Foundation can add one more life to their count: mine.”
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