Success Stories

January 22, 2019

Once a Marxist, now a leader in the fight for freedom in Venezuela

Oscar Torrealba was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in a single-parent household of modest means. During his youth, Oscar was a dedicated Marxist, convinced that more government control would improve his economic situation. […]
January 21, 2019

From Speak Freely to The Telegraph: using the written word to promote liberty

Richard Mason is fast becoming one of the most reliable voices on the growing paternalism in his home country, Britain and the general state of individual and economic freedom across Europe. Although […]
January 21, 2019

Building freer communities in Mexico and Latin America

Frida Lorena Medina Velázquez grew up in Mexico, whose public education system is dominated by Marxist thinking. In this context, free thinking is discouraged and considered as strange. But for Frida, the […]
January 20, 2019

ASFL alumnus at the forefront of the African tech revolution

Nathaniel Luz is convinced Africa can leverage on technology to catch up with the rest of the world. More importantly, this revolution will happen if what is referred to as the “cheetah” […]
January 19, 2019

Promoting liberty from Argentina to the rest of Latin America

Agustin Bernabe Navarro grew up learning from Marxist thinkers in a socialist education system in Latin America. Then he read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and realized that the story was real. People […]
December 3, 2018

SFL Alumnus named one of 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30

David Khosroshvili grew in the 1990s in post-Soviet Georgia; his country was reeling from the chaos wrought by communism. Life was harsh, poverty and corruption were rampant and there was a general […]
October 26, 2018

On Finding Greedy Capitalists Who Care at Liberty Con 2018

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October 22, 2018

Promoting free markets and individual freedom in Africa through research

Jazz is known as the music that has promoted individualism and fueled freedom movements across the United States and the world. It is, then, only fitting that Feyisade Adeyemi found Students For […]
October 22, 2018

Using digital media to promote liberty in Africa

Olanrewaju Elufisan has a very clear vision for bringing more freedom to his home country, Nigeria, and the African continent in general. For this SFL alumnus, the ideas of liberty need to […]
October 15, 2018

From Student Organizing to Management Consulting

When Geanluca Lorenzon was a teenager living in Brazil, his father fell incredibly sick. Although the government had access to the medicine he needed, his father was denied public health care because […]
October 15, 2018

Using Technology to Advance Liberty and Transparency in Guatemala

Growing up in Guatemala, Mariana Cordon recognized that most schools were not interested in teaching the ideas of liberty. Luckily, she got enrolled in Francisco Marroquín University, one the few colleges in […]
October 15, 2018

Education and Liberty, How to Turn Ideas into Action

At just 15 years old, Jacek Spendel got an early introduction to the ideas of movement through a newspaper publication that was circulating at the time. Growing up in Poland, he lived […]
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