Keli Carender
Keli Carender | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1981 |
| Occupation | Improvisational actress-comedian; instructor of adults in math and resume writing |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Oxford University Western Washington University |
| Genre | Politics |
| Subject | Economics, history, and education |
| Website | |
| redistributingknowledge | |
Keli Carender (born c. 1981)[1] is an American blogger credited for being the first Tea Party protest activist[2][3][4] 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.[5][6][7]
Biography
[edit]Carender, a teacher of basic math for adults, founded and co-chaired The Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty.[8] She is a graduate of the Western Washington University, and has a postgraduate Certificate of Education in Secondary Math from the University of Oxford.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Keli Carender takes Tea Party’s mixed messages to the streets | The Seattle Times Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ Zernike, Kate (February 27, 2010). "Unlikely Activist Who Got to the Tea Party Early". The New York Times.
- ^ Kaste, Martin (February 2, 2010). "Tea Party Star Leads Movement On Her Own Terms". NPR.
- ^ McGrath, Ben (February 1, 2010). "The Movement: The rise of Tea Party activism". The New Yorker.
- ^ Liberty Belle (January 25, 2009). "Solution Revolution". Redistributing Knowledge. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
- ^ Hogberg, David (February 20, 2009). "Anti-Stimulus Protests Sprout Up". Investor's Business Daily. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009. Alt URL
- ^ Malkin, Michelle (February 16, 2009). "From the Boston Tea Party to your neighborhood pork protest". MichelleMalkin.com.
- ^ Hanlon, Chip. "Keli Carender". RedCounty.com. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
- ^ "Keli Carender". Tea Party Patriots. Archived from the original on 25 November 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
External links
[edit]- Redistributing Knowledge – Liberty Belle's blog
- Appearances on C-SPAN
Categories:
- American women bloggers
- American bloggers
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- American political commentators
- American political writers
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- People from Seattle
- Tea Party movement activists
- Western Washington University alumni
- Schoolteachers from Washington (state)
- 21st-century American women educators
- 21st-century American educators
- American women non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American women columnists
- 21st-century American women writers
- 1981 births