From SFL Local Coordinator to COO of a UK Non-Profit: Meet Maz Shakibaii
Hear why Maz was inspired to join Students For Liberty.
Maz tells us how Students For Liberty has provided him with the training to develop leadership, organization, and communication skills, while also allowing him to build life-long friendships with SFL leaders from all over the world.
Maz Shakibaii is the Regional Director for the UK & Ireland at European Students For Liberty. He is also the Chief Operating Officer of the British Conservation Alliance, a UK non-profit dedicated to empowering students to engage on the principles of pro-market environmentalism.
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TRANSCRIPT:
No convincing needed, my heart was set. I saw you guys on social media, I saw the big community and I just wanted to get in.
I first got in touch with the ideas of liberty after being a socialist for quite a while. So I was a card-carrying Labor party member and eventually, I discovered that the best way to help poor people, to benefit the economy was not through socialist ideas, but it was actually through Libertarian ideas, free-market ideas, which had been tried and tested throughout history.
So I decided to research a bit more, discovered SFL and then became a Local Coordinator after getting in touch with Rob, who was the Regional Director at the time.
So I think the exposure you get to all these different cultures, all these different people throughout Europe is really fascinating. You develop friends in countries that you never even thought you’d visit, and now if you are visiting these countries you have a friend there who you can visit and meet up for drinks, something like that.
Professionally it has given me a lot of leadership skills, organization skills, and communication skills. Communicating the ideas of liberty has been helped a lot through SFL, through your trainings.
My biggest memory from SFL would probably have to be at the TOP 100 retreat. The sun was setting we had the most amazing view of the hotel academy.
There was a great atmosphere, all together, drinking, talking about politics. The vibe was incredible. Everyone was friends there, it felt like you had known each other for a really long time and that is the memory that I will always remember.
I think it is the international community so it is not just constrained to one area. You develop friendships, like I said, throughout all these different countries and you get ideas from different cultures, you learn how to communicate with different people with different backgrounds, and the whole international aspect is what really makes SFL unique.
It’s not just contained to one area, one country, one culture. It is a whole list of cultures. If you are interested in the ideas of liberty and you want to develop yourself professionally and personally, SFL is one of the best ways to do that.
They’ll take you through everything you need from professional development. It could be the connections you need to get for where you want to be, the funding for your events - if you like activism on campus SFL will provide you with that as well, and there is so much potential to develop yourself through SFL and I would definitely recommend it.
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