THE ACADEMIC
Alumni Profile
LIYA PALAGASHVILI
I became involved with Students
For Liberty in Fall 2009 when I
attended the Philadelphia SFL
Conference. I was a junior at
George Mason University at the
time, and I did not realize there
was a growing movement of
libertarian-oriented students
outside of the undergraduate economics department at Mason.
I was so inspired by the conference that I began getting more
involved with SFL. I started attending their webinar series,
participating in SFL Workshops, and I even published an
Op-Ed with the SFL Op-Ed Project. I then attended the 2010
International Students For Liberty Conference and officially
joined the SFL ‘family’ as an Executive Board Member. I served
for two years and in those two years, I helped to organize the
International SFL Conferences and ran the SFL Webinar Series.
When SFL was founded in 2008, there
were only a handful of pro-liberty
student groups in existence, many of
which ceased to exist within a year or
two once the founder graduated. Today,
there is a thriving international network
of pro-liberty student groups around the
world comprised of talented pro-liberty
students ready to change the world.
These experiences with SFL have been invaluable for me. I am
currently pursuing my PhD in