Don Watkins

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.