ANN ARBOR, MI - Conservative commentator and The Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro is scheduled to speak at the University of Michigan in March.

The UM chapter of Young America’s Foundation (YAF) announced Tuesday that Shapiro will speak at 7 p.m. on March 12 inside Rackham Auditorium. Information about tickets will be announced soon on yaf.org, the group said.

Shapiro, bestselling author of “Bullies: How The Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America," is expected to speak at UM as part of the YAF’s Fred Allen Lecture Series.

Shapiro is host of one of the most listened-to conservative podcasts in America, “The Ben Shapiro Show." He previously was the former editor-at-large of Breitbart News.

He has gained notoriety for sounding off against traditional liberal viewpoints and personalities. According to his online bio, Shapiro has sought to challenge the “left’s ideological stranglehold on academia and has worked to push back against that trend through fact and logic-based speeches and debates.”

Shapiro spoke in Ann Arbor in 2016, also with an invite from UM’s chapter of the YAF.

YAF says it’s committed to exposing more young Americans to conservative ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise and traditional values. The group hosted noted conservative comedian Steven Crowder and political commentator Michael J. Knowles in Ann Arbor last year, and announced plans in December 2018 to bring Shapiro back in 2019.