Kristan Patton, FCF Chairman 2011 - 2013 looks back over his tenure

Remembering "13 de Marzo"Tugboat victims at FIU

As former president of the Free Cuba Foundation (FCF) it wasn't so much what happened on campus that affected me but rather off it. I had the opportunity to meet Polish diplomats, rebel-rousers from other countries, and the heads of the top human rights organizations in Miami that dealt specifically with Cuba.

  

The connections I made eventually led to me currently being in Frankfurt Germany working for the International Society for Human Rights. If I could go back and do things differently, really the only thing I would have changed was to get involved in FCF sooner rather than later.