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Daniel Di Martino is the founder of the Dissident Project and a graduate fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Born and raised in Venezuela, Daniel experienced the terrible consequences of socialism firsthand. After leaving Venezuela for the United States in 2016, he dedicated himself to explaining how socialism destroyed his homeland, advocating for its freedom, and stopping this ideology from ever being implemented in America and elsewhere. Daniel has appeared dozens of times on national TV channels such as Fox News and CNN, written for the USA Today, National Review and other news outlets, and speaks regularly at college campuses and events all over the country. He graduated with a BA in Quantitative Economics from IUPUI in Indianapolis and he is now a PhD candidate in Economics at Columbia University and a Novak Fellow with The Fund for American Studies.
