The Young and the Idealistic: On Campus with Jonathan Fantini Porter

The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. Jonathan Fantini owes his very existence to a well-written letter.



In the 1970s, his mother, a member of Amnesty International, spent years writing to the Argentinean government advocating for the release of a political prisoner she had never met. Her constant campaigning eventually helped free the man, a college student unfairly jailed for protesting the country’s military government. They met the day he was released from prison and quickly fell in love.



“My father is evidence that you can change a person’s life with a piece of paper,” says Jonathan, a 22-year-old senior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.



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