Keli Carender

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Keli Carender
Bornc.1981
OccupationImprovisational actress-comedian; instructor of adults in math and resume writing
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Oxford University
Western Washington University
GenrePolitics
SubjectEconomics, history, and education
Website
redistributingknowledge.blogspot.com

Keli Carender (born c. 1981) [1] is an American blogger credited with 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]

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Biography

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]

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References

  1. Keli Carender takes Tea Party’s mixed messages to the streets | The Seattle Times Retrieved 2018-12-12.
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