August 20, 2024

George Rivera is the founder of Wartime Fitness Warriors—a nonprofit boxing gym in Charlottesville that promotes peer support and mental and physical health—while acting as a safe haven and outlet in the community. In the past four years, he’s helped more than 200 students learn the discipline and art of boxing as a means to structure their future physical wellness and simultaneously provide natural peer support to increase their mental health and wellbeing.