Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to identifying, organizing, and empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government. With a presence on over 3,000 high school and college campuses nationwide, over 650,000 lifetime student members, and 450 full- and part-time staff all across the country, Turning Point USA is the largest and fastest-growing conservative youth activist organization in the country. At just 30 years old, Charlie has done thousands of media appearances and his writings can be seen on Fox News, The Hill, RealClearPolitics, Newsweek, The Washington Times, Breitbart, American Greatness, Daily Caller, The American Mind, The Washington Post, and Human Events.
Charlie was previously named to the Forbes “30 under 30” list and was the youngest speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention as well as the opening speaker at the 2020 RNC. He’s the author of four books including the #1 Amazon and New York Times best-seller, “The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas that Will Win the Future” from Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, and in 2022 he released “The College Scam: How America’s Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America’s Youth,” from Winning Team Publishing. His upcoming book, “Rightwing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West” releases in the spring of 2024.
His social media reaches over 100 million people per month and Axios has listed Charlie as one of the “top 10 most engaged” handles in the world. Charlie is the host of The Charlie Kirk Show podcast, which was downloaded over 120 million times in the last 12 months and regularly ranks among the top 10 shows on Apple News podcast charts. The Charlie Kirk Show is also a nationally syndicated live radio show heard on 150 radio stations around the country and is simulcast on Real America’s Voice News. Collectively, The Charlie Kirk Show is listened to, watched, and streamed by an audience of over 1 million people every day.
