Students For Liberty is currently seeking a part-time graphic designer to assist with design needs. This position is an ideal opportunity for a person looking to gain industry experience while advancing the ideas of liberty. The ideal candidate would be based in or near Washington, DC, though this is not a strict requirement.

Qualified candidates should be familiar with SFL’s culture, mission, and overall aesthetic, and should be able to work quickly and efficiently with a small group of decision-makers. Responsibilities will include designing web graphics, reports, publications, event programs, t-shirts, buttons, banners, flyers, and more. The position will require 5-10 dedicated hours per week.

Requirements:

• Familiarity with print and web design
• Knowledge of current design trends
• Photo editing abilities
• Understanding of and interest in photography is a plus
• Advanced skills in Creative Suite with ability to produce work very quickly
• A degree or equivalent qualification is suggested but not required

Interested candidates may send resumes and cover letters to Communications Manager Megan Roberts at mroberts@studentsforliberty.org.

You must include a link to your portfolio along with your resume. Submissions without a portfolio link will not be considered.

This blog post was sent in by Baptiste Favrot. Baptiste is a 20 year-old French business school student. He was part of the first generation of ESFL Local Coordinators and is now on the European Executive Board and the Regional Director for France. This is his story.

My path towards spreading the ideas of liberty began in 2011 when I joined a small libertarian group in Strasbourg after reading the Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek. At that moment I decided I was willing to turn ideas into actions. A year later I was in Lithuania in the middle of the summer to attend my first ever ESFL event, the Vilnius Regional Conference, where I met amazing and inspiring student leaders. I discovered that I was not the only person to have this crazy idea that the government should stay out of people’s lives. Little did I know at the time that this was about to catapult me into the liberty movement and lead me to attend the biggest student libertarian event ever organized, the 2013 International Students For Liberty Conference in Washington, DC.

Coming back to 2012, when I returned to Strasbourg I decided to apply for the ESFL Local Coordinator position and start a new student group. In September, SFL Strasbourg was born and since that date we have been organizing monthly debates about liberty. It is all too common that students in France never dare to question the minimum wage, the “soda tax” or the drug war. Our events also allowed us to speak about Frederic Bastiat who sadly, as paradoxical as it may seem, remains unknown in our country.

In October I was thrilled to become a new member of the ESFL leadership as a Local Coordinator. The LC retreat, where we received our training, gave me the opportunity to learn more about what SFL does but it also allowed me to adopt a more professional work method. I met my colleagues from all around Europe and it was an incredible time for me.

One of our proudest moments happened this March when SFL Strasbourg hosted the pro-liberty Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan. This conference gathered more than 70 students and also provided our team in Strasbourg with a lesson: dare to build the most amazing project. Passion and motivation made it possible for us to host one of the most inspiring pro-liberty leaders in Europe. Why can’t you do the same?

All the hard work we put in during the last year also earned me the nomination for the Student of the Year award at the 2013 ISFLC, which is a huge honor and a confirmation that we are on the right path with our friends here in France. I am now a member of the ESFL Executive Board as the Regional Director for France. ESFL has been one of the most amazing experiences both in my professional and personal life.

Join the family and help us create a freer Europe. Apply here to become a Local Coordinator!

Imagine that you are walking to school one day and are passing by a park that you commonly see. As you get closer, you see a very young child in the pond , surely too young to swim. As you get even closer, you see that this child is not playing in the pond, but she is drowning in this pond. You can jump in to save her, but you’ll ruin your new pair of shoes. Would you still do it?

‘Of course,” is the reply most people would give. Even if there were others standing around, most people would not wait to for somebody else to jump in to save her.

For the same price as the shoes which you ruin to save the drowning girl, you could help save a life in Africa by donating to purchase several mosquito-nets to fight malaria, or cure blindness from glaucoma in one person. There seems to be no good reason why the severity of the case would change if the life were geographically distant.

This is the analogy which philosopher Peter Singer (in)famously uses to open his 1972 essay, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” and to form a principle which Singer offers in the paper:

“[I]f it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.”

It can also prove to be a problematic moral scenario for those who wish to reduce the role of the state in providing aid to failed nations across the globe, as well as making advocacy against government aid in developing nations difficult if not done in a tactful and well-informed manner. We owe it to the people of these nations to help them, and maybe the best way to help them is to get out of the way, but maybe there are other ways, too.

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Friday the 17th is the last day for student scholarship applications for the premiere conference on open Objectivism! Students may apply for tuition waivers and room and board scholarships, as well as scholarships to cover the cost of attendance.

The Atlas Summit kicks off on Thursday, June 27 with a special full-day program for students to explore the meaning and value of the Objectivist worldview.

The weekend program begins on the 27th, with the main programs from the 28-30th at the Capitol Hilton. View the full list of speakers and programs here!

These scholarships are limited and applications close on May 17, so get yours in today!

America’s Future Foundation (AFF), the nation’s premier network of liberty-minded young professionals, is expanding its leadership this summer!

AFF will be opening several new chapters this year and existing local chapters are looking to expand their leadership teams. This is a great chance for young professionals to gain valuable leadership experience. AFF also provides an exceptional networking platform, career tools, and opportunities to be published in Doublethink magazine and on the “Free the Future” blog.

If you are interested in bringing AFF to your city, please contact AFF’s National Chapter Coordinator, Jason Riddle at jason@americasfuture.org or (404) 754-4324. Or, if you want to learn more about involvement with an established AFF chapter, please contact one of the local chapter leaders listed below.

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