12 Days of AF: Atlanta Chapter

After a brief hiatus, AF-Atlanta is back and bigger and better than ever. 

Atlanta is renowned throughout the country as being a city that is  “Too Busy To Hate”, a reputation that has made it a hub for Fortune 500 companies, tech entrepreneurs, and the movie industry in the Southeast. While Atlanta’s reputation and business friendly environment have done wonders for growing the city, it has also attracted a litany of big government aficionados and bad ideas that are threatening to tear down the incredible things that make Atlanta, Atlanta!  

Now, more than ever, Atlanta needs a network of liberty lovers fiercely dedicated towards making Atlanta a freer city, and a better city. In the few months since it has re-launched, AF-Atlanta has been building that network. 

With the help of a remarkable board and our friends at the Foundation for Economic Education and at Bold Monk Brewery, AF-Atlanta has thrown two successful events, each with a higher turnout than anticipated. Our incredible work is the result of important insights we as chapter leaders learned from an engaging leadership retreat in Washington D.C. which we attended soon after re-launching. At this retreat, we learned about the best practices of running a successful AF chapter from incredible changemakers throughout the country. Armed with knowledge from our retreat in DC, we flew back to Atlanta ready to get to work. 

At our first two events, we drew in leaders of successful public and private-sector organizations, have helped inspire liberty-loving young professionals, and have helped train changemakers in our community. 

For our first event, we hosted AF-Atlanta’s launch party at the Foundation for Economic Education’s Atlanta HQ.  We are unbelievably lucky to have partnered in our first event with one of Atlanta’s premier liberty-oriented non-profits which graciously allowed us to use its facilities. At our launch, we drew in a number of AF-Atlanta alumni and dozens of new members. We concluded our event with a toast to AF-Atlanta’s future success led by AF’s chairman, the irreplaceable Richard Lorenc. With a glass of champagne in hand, Atlanta’s changemakers convened that night to give a toast to America’s Future and advocate for liberty and human flourishing in the Peach State. 

After our first event, we got back to work, and teamed up with Bold Monk Brewing Co., which has become AF-Atlanta’s partner venues, to throw an event with one of the liberty movement’s most outspoken changemakers, Hannah Cox. Our second event, which was aptly titled, “Learning Liberty”, drew in remarkable turnout and featured an incredible speech followed by a Q&A, where Hannah Cox spoke about her work in the liberty movement and what it takes to be a changemaker. 

As leaders of a young chapter, we are eager to develop a force for liberty in our city and in our state. We are also working diligently to reclaim Atlanta’s place as America’s Future’s largest chapter.