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Paulius Klimas is a first-generation Lithuanian American human rights activist, author, and motivational speaker. His solo 1988 “Walk to the White House”, a 500-mile trek from Rochester, NY, helped free a Lithuanian dissident from a Soviet prison during Glasnost. Klimas also led a group of walkers across the Baltic States for independence in 1991.
In 1996, Klimas appeared as a male model in a Lithuanian Airlines advertisement in Lithuanian newspapers. He is fluent in Lithuanian and has worked as an interpreter for the Lithuanian Parliament in 1995. Paulius Klimas is a graduate of the University of Binghamton with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and has worked as a substitute teacher and shoe salesman in the United States.