Austin
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AF-Austin: Liberty and the Ethics of Self Defense
Learn about your right to self defense with your friends at AF-Austin! Our next event will help you understand how your right to self defense is impacted by a variety...
AF-Austin: How to Cut Through the Noise and Be Heard
In today's crowded media landscape, during an election year news cycle driven by fear-mongering and constant chaos, how can you ensure that you, your organization, and your brand get your...
AF-Austin: Fireside Chat Feat. Pano Kanelos
Join AF-Austin for a fireside chat with Pano Kanelos, the founding president of the University of Austin, to learn about the future of higher education! We seek to learn more...
Chapter Leader
Ivy El-Zaatari
Ivy El-Zaatari is the Chapter Leader of AF-Austin. Ivy is a political junkie, high dollar fundraiser and professional trainer. At the start of her career, she attended the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs where she was heavily involved in her local political jungle, aiding campaigns as well as running the College Republican club and managing the ice hockey team. At 21 years old, she left Colorado to run the youth effort for Mary Thomas for Congress where her youth campaign knocked on 35,000 doors and made 70,000 phone calls. The Leadership Institute then hired Ivy as their director of the Youth Leadership School, where she traveled the country to educate inspired college activists that wanted the tools to win. Her passion and effort in this role soon prompted her to work as the Executive Assistant to Senator Rand Paul and the Director of RandPAC. Taking a step back from politics, Ivy decided to finish her degree and work in the private business space as the area manager for Amazon’s logistics facility in Grand Prairie among other private ventures. Eventually succumbing to the tugging of her heartstrings for liberty, she joined Young Americans for Liberty as the Development Manager. Currently, Ivy runs Ivy League Consulting LLC where she helps individuals and organizations grow their fundraising base and build out the systems and structures to be successful. Originally born in Lebanon, Ivy has been a strong advocate for individual liberty and hopes to see the power of the State dissolve in her lifetime. In her free time Ivy’s newest project is the creation of a nonprofit, HEALED, that seeks to help those who struggle with PTSD through an alignment of their mental, physical and spiritual health.