{"id":1548,"date":"2013-06-17T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:33:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T21:33:52","slug":"student-fights-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/2013\/06\/17\/student-fights-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Fights Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last fall David Riveros Garcia attended two anti-corruption conferences in Brazil. He facilitated and led sessions on anti-corruption, met the vice president of the World Bank, and advocated his own organization, Youth Change Reaction.<\/p><\/div>\n

David Riveros\u00a0 Garcia, a junior at Morningside College, has a bit more on his plate than most college\u00a0 students.<\/p>\n

David, a native of\u00a0 Paraguay, is an activist who fights against corruption and teaches others how\u00a0 to do the same. When he was 17, he led a major demonstration against administrative\u00a0 corruption in his high school. Leading about 3,000 students, David stood up\u00a0 against Paraguay\u2019s Ministry of Education. It was a huge deal, to say the least.\u00a0 David said he was defamed by the media, persecuted by political parties, and\u00a0 even had death threats made against him. However, from that experience he was\u00a0 noticed by influential international organizations that also sought to fight\u00a0 corruption and injustice around the world.<\/p>\n

After graduation, David was named a youth ambassador\u00a0 by the U.S. Embassy, and was made a Global Changemaker by the British Council.\u00a0 From there, the British Council sent him to a multitude of conferences around\u00a0 the world. He attended the World Economic Forum, an extremely prestigious\u00a0 conference where he met the former president of Colombia, the current president\u00a0 of Mexico, and the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab.\u00a0 He became one of the founders of the Global\u00a0 Youth Anti-Corruption Network (GYAC), which brought together 50 anti-corruption\u00a0 activists, who now have annual summits. He attended two anti-corruption\u00a0 conferences in Brazil in November 2012. In December, he was asked by the United\u00a0 Nations Development Program to lead a webinar session on anti-corruption.<\/p>\n

Though busy\u00a0 traveling to conferences, David is thankful that his professors have\u00a0 accommodated his schedule. David said his experience at Morningside has lent\u00a0 itself well to his work so far. Of his time here, David said he\u2019s learned a\u00a0 lot. \u201cMost of the things I\u2019ve learned I have applied to my work as an activist.\u00a0 You need knowledge to be able to inflict change.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a major in\u00a0 international affairs and a double minor in economics and world history, he\u00a0 would like to use what he learns in order to help his country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly don\u2019t\u00a0 know how to put it, how much I love my country and how much I want to help it,\u201d\u00a0 he said, \u201cAlthough I\u2019ve got what people consider outstanding achievements, I\u00a0 really believe that my greatest achievement is to have made the friends I have,\u00a0 for nothing would have been truly possible if it was not for them and my\u00a0 family. \u201c<\/p>\n

-Carly Hanson<\/p>\n

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David Riveros\u00a0 Garcia, a junior at Morningside College, has a bit more on his plate than most college\u00a0 students. David, a native of\u00a0 Paraguay, is an activist who fights against corruption and teaches others how\u00a0 to do the same. When he was 17, he led a major demonstration against administrative\u00a0 corruption in his high school. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}