Keli Carender (born c. 1981) is an American blogger credited for being the first Tea Party protest activist when she was the principal organizer of a protest of the

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on February 16, 2009. Carender started her blog ''Redistributing Knowledge'' on January 25, 2009, writing under the ''nom de plume'' Liberty Belle.

Biography

Carender, a teacher of basic math for adults, founded and co-chaired The Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty. She is a graduate of the

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, and has a postgraduate Certificate of Education in Secondary Math from the

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''Redistributing Knowledge''
– Liberty Belle's blog * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carender, Keli American women bloggers American bloggers American columnists American political commentators American political writers Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Mass media 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