Republicans Host Campus Free Speech Roundtable

As a young Black woman from the blue state of Illinois, Jasmyn Jordan said hearing former vice president Mike Pence speak at a Young Americans for Freedom event  at the University of Iowa her freshman year marked one of the first times she witnessed a prominent speaker who shared her beliefs and values. Seeking a safe space to express her views, Jordan quickly joined her campus chapter of the conservative student organization. But as she rose in the ranks from local secretary to YAF national chairwoman, she realized that on college campuses, “conservative values did not get the same playing field as more left-leaning ones.”