Keli Carender

Keli Carender
Born c. 1981
Occupation Improvisational actress-comedian; instructor of adults in math and resume writing
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Oxford, English
Genres Politics
Subjects Economics, history, and education
www.redistributingknowledge.blogspot.com

Keli Carender (born c. 1981) is a Seattle, Washington-based blogger credited with being the first Tea Party protest activist[1][2][3] when she was the principal organizer of a protest of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 16, 2009. Carender started her blog Redistributing Knowledge on January 25, 2009, writing under the nom de plume Liberty Belle.[4][5][6]

Biography

Carender, a teacher of basic math for adults, founded and co-chaired The Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty.[7]

References

  1. ^ Zernike, Kate (February 27, 2010). "Unlikely Activist Who Got to the Tea Party Early". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28keli.html. 
  2. ^ Kaste, Martin (February 2, 2010). "Tea Party Star Leads Movement On Her Own Terms". NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123229743. 
  3. ^ McGrath, Ben (February 1, 2010). The Movement: The rise of Tea Party activism. The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/01/100201fa_fact_mcgrath?currentPage=2. 
  4. ^ Liberty Belle (January 25, 2009). "Solution Revolution". Redistributing Knowledge. http://redistributingknowledge.blogspot.com/2009/01/solution-revolution.html. Retrieved September 15, 2010. 
  5. ^ Hogberg, David (February 20, 2009). "Anti-Stimulus Protests Sprout Up". Investor's Business Daily. Archived from the original on February 22, 2009. http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2009/02/antistimulus_protests_sprout_u.html. 
  6. ^ Malkin, Michelle (February 16, 2009). "From the Boston Tea Party to your neighborhood pork protest". MichelleMalkin.com. http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/16/from-the-boston-tea-party-to-your-neighborhood-pork-protest/. 
  7. ^ Hanlon, Chip. "Keli Carender". RedCounty.com. http://www.redcounty.com/user/1228. Retrieved September 15, 2010. 

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