Success Stories

November 4, 2019

Marcus Maldonado: Meet the Tulane Student Who is Making “WAVES”

Tulane student and Students For Liberty leader Marcus Maldonado has just launched a student-led think tank in New Orleans. The Wave Center for Policy and Enterprise works to “unite individuals around innovative […]
October 16, 2019

Gianluca Lorenzon: The Director of Debureaucratization

SFL alumnus Gianluca Lorenzon is working for freedom in Brazil- and succeeding. As a student, he was heavily involved in Students For Liberty and he ran the influential group Clube Farroupilha, a […]
May 7, 2019

Meet the formidable founder and fundraiser behind Iceland’s donor network

Magnús Örn Gunnarsson is an impressive leader with the uncanny ability to make great ideas a reality. He is currently taking time off from his studies to build up the liberty movement […]
March 4, 2019

Exceptional Greek Leader Wins Prometheus Award for His Work for Liberty

In December 2018, Evangelos Andreou, a local coordinator from Greece, won the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s “Young Liberal of the Year” Award. The award was a part of the Prometheus Awards, an awards […]
February 15, 2019

Reaching Mexico’s remote regions with the message of liberty

Historically, Mexican student activists have faced repression for speaking out against violence, corruption, and authoritarianism. Today, Mexico remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world for activists, regardless of their […]
February 14, 2019

Watering the grassroots: Fundraising for the South Asian liberty movement

Sougandhi Bogupally is affectionately known as “Baby Capitalist” by her classmates at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India where she is pursuing a Masters in Development. However, her pro-liberty views weren’t always […]
February 12, 2019

Meet the fundraising champion for Georgian Students For Liberty

Georgian Students For Liberty has been active in for about six years, and its growth and expansion would likely not be possible without the hard work and initiative of co-founder Lia Janelidze. […]
February 11, 2019

He left med school to pursue liberty. Today, he’s impacted over 3,000 students in Mexico

Arturo Portillo was in medical school when he decided to switch to economics and actively promote the ideas of liberty for the rest of his life. Growing up in the north of […]
January 28, 2019

Founder of SFL Brazil elected to State Parliament

Students For Liberty has been active in Brazil for about eight years, and its existence would likely not be possible without the hard work and initiative of Fabio Ostermann. A decade ago,  Brazil […]
January 25, 2019

Young leader elected to National Congress in Brazil

Marcel van Hattem was elected councilman in his city of Dois Irmão at the age of 18 in 2004. Born into a family of entrepreneurs, he often heard his parents talk about […]
January 24, 2019

ASFL leader using the art of debate to change minds in Tanzania

Growing up in Tanzania, the birthplace of ujamaa — the concept of African socialism popularized by the country’s first president Julius Nyerere — Evans Exaud was confused about what “capitalism” meant. It […]
January 23, 2019

22 years old. Graduated. Elected into Brazilian State Legislature.

Giuseppe Riesgo embodies what Students For Liberty aims to achieve: develop empowered students who become the next generation of leaders of liberty. Yet, he didn’t even want to join Students For Liberty. […]
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