SFL
Annual Report
2013-2014
Letter from the President
Students For Liberty has completed our sixth and most successful year.
This past year, SFL successfully carried out our shift to building a truly international organization supporting a global
student movement for liberty with fully-functioning Regional Executive Boards for North America, Europe, the
Spanish-Speaking Americas, and Brazil, as well as launching two new Regional Executive Boards in Africa and South
Asia by the end of the year. With the first Australia-New Zealand SFL Conference taking place this summer and SFL
leaders in Korea and Japan, SFL is primed to continue expanding our work to help students around the world.
SFL grew to 1,369 student groups, trained 468
student leaders, and distributed hundreds of
thousands of resources to support them, such
as 350,000 copies of Why Liberty. To ensure
the views of the Millennial generation are
being included in the media, SFL launched
Young Voices, which has helped young
libertarians get published more than 300 times
over the past year.
What’s more, this past year, SFL alumni
accomplished tremendous feats. SFL is only
6 years old, but we already have thousands of
alumni who are beginning to make a difference
in diverse industries and professions across
the world, and who attribute their success
to their involvement in SFL. Throughout
this report, you’ll see stories of SFL alumni
successes, like Jared Fuller, SFL’s former
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Southeast US Regional Director who is now a serial
entrepreneur; Liya Palagashvili, the recipient of the 2010
SFL Student of the Year Award who is gearing up to
be a future powerhouse professor; Lance Wheeler, the
former president of the University of Kentucky Students
For Liberty who is now running for political office;
and Carlo Rocha, the Chairman of Estudantes Pela
Liberdade in Brazil who has graduated from law school
and is preparing to fight for liberty in the courts. These
are just a few of the thousands of stories that make up
the lives of SFL alumni.
We are highlighting these stories in this year’s annual
report for a reason: the most important thing SFL does
is change people’s lives. Student groups are critical
venues to provide a safe space for pro-liberty ideas
in academia. Campus events are opportunities for
students to learn more about the nature of a free society.
Resources are tools to facilitate the spread of ideas on
campus. The reason we care about groups, events, and
resources, is not because they are ends in themselves, but