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.
Find out more in our interview with George Rivera below, and visit wartimefitnesswarriors.org.
