Name: Andrew Kaluza
School: University of Texas at San Antonio
Email: akaluza@studentsforliberty.org
Bio: Andrew is the founder and former president of Young Americans for Liberty at University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the Student Liaison to College Campuses in the Republican Freedom Coalition of Bexar County (formerly known as the Republican Liberty Caucus of Bexar County). Andrew was a Students For Liberty Campus Coordinator before joining the Executive Board and is looking forward to continuing to further the philosophy of liberty.
Favorite Figures in Liberty: Fredrich Hayek for strategy, Murray Rothbard for ideology, Ayn Rand for the mindset
On Students For Liberty: “I first found out about SFL by attending the 2009 Austin Regional Conference. I saw that students relative to my own age had put together an entire conference bringing out 60+ students. Seeing that they had done such a great feat empowered me to get more active. After leaving the conference, I decided to start up a liberty chapter at my school, Young Americans for Liberty at UTSA. The chapter has since taken on very active leadership and grown into a healthy organization. One semester later, I came on to SFL’s leadership as a Campus Coordinator. In this position, I was given the opportunity to use my creativity to help host the following year’s 2010 Austin Regional Conference, help start up many new liberty chapters in Texas and North Carolina, host localized Forum For Freedom meet-ups (FFF’s are localized coalitions of the top student leaders in Texas). Recently, I joined SFL’s Executive Board and am looking forward to building the student liberty movement.
Students are the biggest demographic for social change, because students are in a setting where ideas can be presented without the normal distractions of the professional world. They are open to new ideas as opposed to being stuck stubbornly in a destructive ideology. We at Students For Liberty target our efforts towards this demographic, because students hold the most promise for influencing social change.”
