Stories From Our Alumni Around the World

I attended my first Language of Liberty Camp in Slovakia in 2007, freshly out of high school. I met many interesting and great people; some of them became very close friends and I am still in touch with them. These camps are a great combination of English practice and introductory classes into classical liberalism and entrepreneurship. I would like to thank past and previous LLI sponsors, organizers, and teachers for giving me the opportunity to attend these camps. I definitely benefited from these immensely.

• Founder and board member of ESFL, still active as an informal mentor and fundraiser
• Started a health-care consulting firm, traveling internationally for speaking and consulting engagements

Organizing and attending a LLI camp helped me to know more about international organizations and their main activities and goals, which helped me to connect with the international student movement "Students for Liberty" and I founded my own organization in my country, Georgian Students for Liberty. LLI gave me a great opportunity to dig deep down in the liberty movement. LLI changed my life!

• Organized the 2012 Georgia camp, which drew 80 students and focused on debate practice
• Georgian Students for Liberty won Best Team, European Students for Liberty, 2016

I attended the Liberty Camp in Slovakia in 2012, and it was my first pro-liberty event ever. It was really a life-changing moment as I met people who became important friends. I found out about Students For Liberty and started a branch of SFL in CZ in early 2013, with groups on campuses in Brno, Ostrava, and Prague. I am to this day very happy that the first liberty event I ever attended was Liberty Camp.

• Now serves as Global IT Director for Students For Liberty

Since attending the Liberty Camp in Slovakia, I went on to become the regional director for ex-Yugoslavia at ESFL, organized several regional conferences, and helped create ESFL chapters throughout the region. Perhaps most importantly, I founded the Center for Anti-Authoritarian Studies, a Serbian non-profit dedicated to fighting media censorship and empowering young journalists.

• Belgrade conference in 2014 attracted over 280 attendees from across Europe
• CAAS now counts more than 50 alumni working across investigative journalism

The opportunity to participate in Liberty Camp turned out to be a great engine for me to become a champion of ideas of a free society. I founded a local chapter of Students for Liberty and another think tank called Action for Liberty and Economic Development (ALED), through which I've spoken to thousands of students and youth across Uganda and East Africa.

• Organized LLI's Uganda camps in 2017–2018

Liberty Camp is a fantastic opportunity to discuss the ideas of liberty but also practice your English. With participants from all around the world and amazing speakers, you get to spend a week discussing the greatest libertarian thinkers and their ideas. Liberty Camp was my first international libertarian event and I'm very grateful to the organizers for all the contacts that I made there.

• Executive Board, European Students For Liberty
• Communications Manager, Libertarijanski Klub (LIBEK)