PFS Co-founder Edward Yingling Participates in Second Annual Campus Free Speech Roundtable

December 05, 2022 1 min read

On December 5, leaders of the Alumni Free Speech Alliance (AFSA), including AFSA president and PFS co-founder Edward Yingling, participated in an important congressional roundtable on free speech on college campuses. AFSA participants also including John Craig, AFSA Treasurer; students from W&L and UVA who are very involved with AFSA members there; and Raj Kannappan of Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and a member of AFSA’s Cornell alumni group member.  Other participants were from the Foundation on Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA).

 Republican House Members, including Rep. Greg Murphy, the organizer, Rep Virginia Foxx, the next chair of the Education and Labor Committee, and other free speech champions, led the discussion. This is the second of these annual free speech roundtables.

The link to the video of the Roundtable is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_AMvnjHq0I

Note: The Alumni Free Speech Alliance is a formal alliance of alumni free speech groups of which PFS was a co-founder.  PFS co-founders Edward Yingling and Stuart Taylor serve as president and vice-chair, respectively, of AFSA.  AFSA has fifteen member alumni groups, including groups from Harvard, Yale, MIT, Cornell, Stanford and UVA.  It is growing rapidly as more and more alumni groups are forming for their universities.


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