Ayn Rand Institute
Don Watkins serves as the VP of Fundraising and Marketing at the Ayn Rand Institute since April 2022, previously holding roles as Marketing Director and Director of Coaching and Mentoring. Concurrently, since May 2020, Don Watkins has been a Writer, Editor, and Communications Coach at Authentic Persuasion, focusing on helping advocates of liberty produce influential written and spoken content. Prior experience includes serving as the Director of Education at the Center for Industrial Progress from May 2017 to May 2020, where efforts centered on promoting human flourishing through industrial progress. Earlier, from March 2006 to May 2017, Don Watkins was a Fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, engaging as a public intellectual on Rand’s ideas with an emphasis on economic topics.
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Ayn Rand Institute
The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Irvine, California, works to introduce young people to Ayn Rand’s novels, to support scholarship and research based on her ideas, and to promote the principles of reason, rational self-interest, individual rights and laissez-faire capitalism to the widest possible audience. The Institute is named for novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982), who is best known for her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.