Our First Lawyer – Marlon Vargas Patino

“In my case, the Marina Orth Foundation was able to close the gap for me between what I really wanted to do with my life versus just being able to survive. Thanks to the foundation and to my mentors, former Peace Corps volunteer Howard Ellegant and Carol Ellegant, today I have the possibility to choose my destiny and to take risks knowing that within myself I have what I need to  fulfill my dreams.”

Marlon is a Marina Orth Foundation scholar. He graduated from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Law School and is already working as a lawyer in Medellin. He wrote his first book about the armed conflict in Colombia and interned on Capitol Hill in the Congress of the United States of America. Fluent in English Marlon is working on his second book.