Dennis Pratt

Dennis is the NH Liberty Activist of the Year. He was Quora's #1 writer on libertarianism, when he moved to the Free State 4.5 years ago. He has since become the consummate volunteer, starting the liberty clubhouse The SHELL, opening the Independence Inn, offering liberty bus tours, organizing events, and tweeting about the Free State (Twitter: @DennisPrattFree). Having redesigned PorcFest to more than double its size, this will be his fifth year volunteering to help lead it. (Don’t miss: PorcFest XX 2023!)

Dennis studied psychology undergrad and computer science grad at Northwestern, and business grad at MIT. His research was the design of new products in emerging industries. Besides homeschooling his daughter, he also started an organization for parents to take control of their child’s schooling and an organization for personal growth that ran 250 events/year for 4,500 members in the Boston area.

Coming from the left, he's been a libertarian over 40 years, he’s been married a bit longer than that to his wife, best friend, and college dorm mate Carol. They have one child, Vivian, and two dogs; his is named “Ron Paw”.

Naomi Brockwell

Naomi Brockwell is a tech journalist, and creator of NBTV.media.

NBTV teaches people how to reclaim control of their lives in the digital age. The channel gives people the tools they need to take back their data, money, and free online expression.

From 2013 – 2015 she worked as a policy associate at the New York Bitcoin Center. From 2015 – 2021 she has worked as a producer for 19-times Emmy-Award-Winning Journalist John Stossel. From 2021 to 2022 she hosted the CoinDesk series “Break it Down”, and the CoinDesk daily show “The Hash”.

Naomi was a producer for the 2015 feature documentary Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (Best International Documentary, Anthem Film Festival; Winner of Special Jury Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival), and producer of the 2018 award-winning documentary about the housing crash The Bubble.

Naomi is the co-founder of “The Soho Forum”, a NY debate series. She is on the Advisory Council at the “Mannkal Economic Education Foundation”, and is author of “Beginner's Introduction To Privacy”, and the children's book “Billy's Bitcoin”.

Preston Byrne

Preston Byrne is a crypto-anarchist marmot herder and technology transactions lawyer at Brown Rudnick, LLP's Washington, D.C. office. He advises businesses in the Bitcoin/crypto, consumer internet, and “dissident tech” sectors on a range of contentious and non-contentious commercial law matters. You can find him at pjb on Gab and prestonjbyrne on Twitter.

Carla Gericke

Carla Gericke is an author, activist, and attorney who, together with thousands of libertarian pioneers, is building a consent-based society in the Free State of New Hampshire. Carla is the author of The Ecstatic Pessimist: Stories of Hope (Mostly) and blogs regularly at her site, The Art of Independence. She hosts The Carla Gericke Show and co-hosts Manch Talk, two weekly cable access news shows, and a new podcast FSP PorcChat on Mondays, and is a frequent guest on libertarian podcasts. She has appeared on WMUR, CNN, and Fox News, been featured in GQ and Playboy, been quoted in The Economist, and has discussed libertarianism on the BBC. Carla serves on several educational nonprofit boards, including the Free State Project, Right-to-Know NH, and the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence. She has organized the Porcupine Freedom Festival four times, including hosting PorcFest during 2020. Carla has run as the Republican/Libertarian candidate for NH Senate three times against an entrenched Establishment incumbent, garnering 45% of the vote in 2020. In 2014, Carla won a landmark 1st Amendment, First Circuit court case affirming the right to film police encounters. She was named one of NH Magazine’s “Remarkable Women” the same year. Carla lives with her husband of 27 years and their rescued dog in a 1950s atomic ranch in West Manchester. Her life motto is: Live free and thrive!

Zachary Greenberg

A native New Yorker, Zach graduated from Binghamton University in 2013 and Syracuse Law in 2016. He developed an appreciation for free speech while leading the College Libertarians and the Federalist Society: In these roles, he sought to bring those with divergent opinions together for debate and discussion. His experience as a founding father of the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter at Binghamton inspired his advocacy for student groups as a First Amendment attorney at FIRE.

Outside of FIRE, Zach serves on the board of directors of the First Amendment Lawyers Association and the Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance. He enjoys learning new board and card games, playing Ultimate Frisbee, and extolling the many virtues of the greatest city on earth—Philadelphia.

Jeremy Kauffman

Jeremy discovered the ideas of voluntarism gradually, but would credit Friedman and Huemer as making the strongest cases. Jeremy is the founder and CEO of LBRY.io, a New Hampshire-based blockchain company that produces and maintains a decentralized content sharing and publishing protocol. He moved to New Hampshire in 2015 with his partner Rachel Goldsmith, formerly the Executive Director of the FSP. They live with their daughter and 3 sons in East Manchester.

Chris Maidment

Grassroots Engagement Director AFP NH. Award winning journalist.

Kerry McDonald

Kerry McDonald is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org/kerry) and host of the LiberatED Podcast. She is also the author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019), an education policy fellow at State Policy Network, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a regular Forbes contributor.

Kerry’s research interests include homeschooling and schooling alternatives, self-directed learning, education entrepreneurship, parent empowerment, school choice, and family and child policy. Her articles have appeared at The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, NPR, Education Next, Reason Magazine, Washington Examiner, City Journal, Entrepreneur, and the Journal of School Choice, among others. She has a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bowdoin College.Kerry lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and four children. Follow her on Twitter @Kerry_edu.

Kitty Michelotti

Kitty began working in alternative education settings on a 200-acre educational dairy farm in New York. At Sprout Creek Farm, Kitty learned to supplement and support the curriculum students were studying in the classroom with hands-on experiences she provided in the barns, gardens, and fields. Kitty earned Bachelor’s Degrees in Animal Science and English from Colorado State University (CSU), returned to Sprout Creek for two years as an AmeriCorps Volunteer, then received her Masters in Cooperative Extension Education at CSU. Her thesis project was a science-based summer camp (before STEM or STEAM were a thing), and it solidified her commitment to inspiring learning in kids in engaging ways they would retain.

Becoming a homeschooler was the ideal amalgamation of Kitty's free-spirited teaching methods, love of children, and of learning. She was appointed by the NH Education Commissioner, Frank Edelblut to serve as a homeschool liaison on the Home Education Advisory Council as a member, and elected Chairwoman. Kitty was on the administrative team and newsletter editor for Granite State Home Educators, the largest homeschool organization (over 5,000 members) in New Hampshire. Presently, Kitty is an educator at Chesterbrook School of Natural Learning and Vice President and educator at Latitude Learning.

Brittany Ping

Matt Ping

Marc Randazza

Marc J. Randazza is the managing partner of Randazza Legal Group. Randazza’s First Amendment calling came to him at the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst, where he studied Journalism, but focused most of his studies on First Amendment legal issues.

After college, he worked as a journalist in Washington, DC, and Rome and Palermo, Italy, with sojourns on fishing vessels in Alaska, and oil tankers, tugboats, and freighters in the Caribbean and South Florida.

After his journalist and mariner days, he attended Georgetown University Law Center, where he earned his Juris Doctor degree, and where he spent time clerking for the Supreme Court of Vermont and for Rydin Carlsten Advokatbyrå, a Stockholm-based intellectual property law firm.

Immediately following law school, Marc received a fellowship from the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida, where he spent two years conducting in-depth research, publishing, and lecturing on First Amendment and intellectual property law issues.

Following his fellowship, Randazza established a career focused on First Amendment and Internet law.

His practice includes representation of defendants in SLAPP actions, protesters, and other free speech cases as well as intellectual property litigation and transactions. His practice includes representation of Internet businesses with Section 230 protection, adult entertainment businesses, and other businesses and individuals in intellectual property and free speech matters. Randazza was honored by Vegas, Inc. as one of Southern Nevada’s best attorneys for lawsuits and disputes.

Randazza formerly taught First Amendment Law, Entertainment Law, Trademark Law, and Copyright Law at Barry University School of Law in Orlando, Florida. He is a frequent panelist at legal conferences focused on these issues. He is often asked for commentary in the mainstream media, and has frequently appeared on national television news shows, offering commentary on First Amendment legal issues.

Randazza is an officer of the First Amendment Lawyers’ Association. He is licensed to practice law in Nevada, California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Florida, all federal courts in those states, multiple federal appellate courts, and before the United States supreme court.

Jason Sorens

Jason Sorens is Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 2003 and a B.A. in economics and philosophy (with honors) from Washington and Lee University in 1998. He has researched and written more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, a book for McGill-Queens University Press titled Secessionism, and a biennially revised book for the Cato Institute, Freedom in the 50 States (with William Ruger). His research has focused on fiscal federalism, U.S. state politics, and movements for regional autonomy and independence around the world. He has taught at Yale, Dartmouth, Saint Anselm College, and the University at Buffalo and founded the Free State Project as a graduate student. He lives in Amherst, New Hampshire.

Constance Spencer

Constance Spencer is the team lead for Independence Realty Group, a real estate team composed completely of Free State project movers. She's held her real estate license since 2015 and her broker license since 2021. Her team is part of Coldwell Banker Realty, combining personalized service with a major brokerage support. Prior to becoming a real estate agent, she was an accountant for real estate investors.

She is an early mover for the Free State Project moving from Alaska in 2014 with her four children. In Alaska she was learning self-reliance by turning her small acreage home into a homestead through permaculture and raising chickens, ducks, turkeys, and pigs. She was also active in the home birth community and has always allowed her children education freedom which has included homeschooling, trade schools, and charter schools.

She has also been a real estate investor since her early twenties when she rented her single family home in Ohio and moved to Alaska. She and her partner currently have 13 rental units. Her passion is helping others navigate home ownership and real estate investing. She’s just as comfortable talking about peaceful parenting as she is discussing holding real estate in retirement accounts and sees both as paths to liberty.

She's been an active volunteer for Free State Project events—especially Porcfest—and this year is putting her management and accounting experience to work co-producing Porcfest.

Jeffrey Tucker

Jeffrey A. Tucker is the Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.

Ian Underwood

Ian Underwood has been a planetary scientist and artificial intelligence researcher for NASA, the director of the renowned Ask Dr. Math service, co-founder of Bardo Farm and Shaolin Rifleworks, and a popular speaker at liberty-related events. He is the creator of a series of Bare Minimum Books, which expose the simplicity underlying complex issues like law, education, and gun rights. He lives in Croydon, New Hampshire.

Joël Valenzuela

Joël Valenzuela is a veteran independent journalist and blockchain technology educator and consultant, living off cryptocurrency since 2015. He creates content for the Digital Cash Network and writes for Human Events, and previously worked for the Dash decentralized autonomous organization. He is a mover to New Hampshire for the Free State Project.

Mark Warden

Elliot "Alu" Axelman

Elliot “Alu” Axelman lives in southern New Hampshire with his amazing wife and son. Though raised as a conservative, Alu became increasingly libertarian as he learned more about how government operates. As he became more involved in political analysis via his writing, podcasts, videos, and activism, Alu evolved into a voluntaryist - which means that he totally rejects the use of force against peaceful people, even by government agents. Outside of his full-time job (emergency medicine) and his full-time labor of love (supporting freedom), Alu enjoys power-lifting, boxing, BJJ, traveling, teaching, and recently began trying his hand at piano and saxophone. They Fear Unity is Alu's seventh book.

Matt Sabourin dit Choinière

Matt Sabourin dit Choinière serves as the Chairman of the New Hampshire Independence Political Action Committee (NHIPAC). Formed in April of 2022, NHIPAC is responsible for supporting legislators and legislation promoting an independent New Hampshire. This past fall, NHIPAC saw 6 of its 9 supported candidates victorious in the 2022 New Hampshire General Election, and the committee is excited for this year's legislative season. Matt is a former Air Force Officer and earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY. He currently works as a wireless sales professional on the New Hampshire Seacoast. Additionally, he is also a PADI certified Master SCUBA Diver and an Eagle Scout.

Jody Underwood

Jody Underwood has served on the Croydon School Board since 2010. She shepherded a bill through the NH legislature to clarify the law to allow private schools to be included in town tuitioning agreements. She is a founding board member of the School District Governance Association of NH (sdganh.org), whose mission is to help school board members discover their powers so they don’t get overrun by administrators.

Jody has written research papers about how New Hampshire uses tax dollars for private schools and about how town tuitioning works in New Hampshire. She has delivered presentations about town tuitioning and school choice around the state.

She has conducted research and development of technology to support learning and assessment in the classroom since 1988. She received her B.S. in computer science from Hofstra University, her M.S. in computer science/AI from Rutgers University, and her Ph.D. in Education from The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

She and her husband moved to New Hampshire in 2007, where they live on a large off-the-grid property.

Kate Baker Demers

Kate Baker Demers, Executive Director of Children’s Scholarship Fund NH (CSF), is a leader in the Granite State’s education freedom movement. Toward that aim, she has worked tirelessly for more two decades on behalf of NH children, driving the implementation and growth of two charter schools, NH’s Education Tax Credit scholarship program and Education Freedom Account program. Kate also served as the Chair of the Polaris Charter School Board of Trustees. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Catholic Charites NH, Board Member of the Rotary Club of Concord, and is an Appointee of Governor Sununu to the NH Council for Thriving Children. Kate was honored to be recognized by the New Hampshire Union Leader and the NH Business and Industry Association as a “40 Under Forty, the state's brightest young achievers ″ and through her work, with Children’s Scholarship Fund, thousands of NH children now have the education that is the right fit for them to thrive.

Jorge Besada

Jorge is usually a computer programmer who has worked at bit-tech firms like PayPal and Microsoft but his real passion is helping spread an understanding of the world as provided by the so-called 'Austrian School of Economics' and men like Ludwig von Mises and 1974 Nobel laureate in economics F.A. Hayek. He is the co-founder of "Liberty Speaks" which you can visit at libertyspeaks.world and has self-published several books like:

Economics, the Social Order, and the Ron Paul Revolution (March, 2008)
A Hayekian Worldview: Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life, Society, the Economic Crisis, Hip-Hop, and F.A. Hayek's Coming Intellectual Revolution (November, 2011)
Less Marx, More Mises: Sparking The Misesian Worldwide Free Market ‘Austrian Economics’ Real Capitalism Revolution (November, 2022)

Travis Corcoran

Travis Corcoran is a software engineer, an entrepreneur, a New Hampshire state legislator, a ten year veteran of the FSP (mover number 1,300), and an author. His first novel, The Powers of the Earth, won the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction. His second novel, Causes of Separation, won the same award the following year. His two volume homesteading book Escape the City has sold over 10,000 copies.

Sean Dempsey

Sean Dempsey is a 2005 graduate of the University of Vermont where he received his degree in Business Administration; he later went on to receive his MBA at the University of New Hampshire.

Sean began writing educational and freedom-based children's books in 2020, inspired by his four year old daughter and her desire to comprehend what was happening in the new world unfolding around her. Sean's primary inspiration for the short picture book The Tale of Two Brothers (subtitled "Dare to Live") was the Covid-19 crisis that overtook the world.

However, what terrified Sean the most, and led to his more prescient writings, was the visceral and displaced fear that overtook the global populace. Rather than attempting to study and logically perceive the true risks germane to the virus itself and its holistic medical impact, people at large instead embraced draconian measures such as national and state-wide government lockdowns. As the data later evidenced, this fear (and the heavy-hand of government) proved to be far more devastating to the fabric of society than the virus itself. A classic and ironic case of "the cure being worse than the disease."

The concept, therefore, of having fear dominate one's life (and an illogical over-heighted sense of real risk) was a common thread in Sean's body of work. For, from a philosophical as well as "real world" perspective, what does it mean to live and be human? It is simply the act of staying alive and drawing breath; or, rather, is it something much deeper and transcendent?

For example, what is life without music, art, or beauty? What is life without sharing laughter and tears with friends, family, and loved ones? What is life without freedom? Is life without some, or any, of these items "worth living"?

These are questions not easily answered, but rather pondered by theologians, philosophers, and poets alike.

Justin O’Donnell

Long time Libertarian Activist, Justin O'Donnell jumped head first into political activism following his departure from Military Service in 2013, and has worked on campaigns, ballot initiatives, and legislative lobbying efforts in 3 states since. Justin also served 2 terms on the Libertarian National Committee representing Libertarians in the 8 Northeast States in the Libertarian Party. He has also run for office a number of times, and published 2 books since moving to New Hampshire full time in February 2017. His first book, Selling Liberty: Communicating Freedom in an Unfree World is a primer on basic sales and communication strategies for new activists, and his latest work, Live Free and Thrive: 101 Reasons Liberty Lives in New Hampshire, and So Should You! is a reimagining of an earlier work from activists associated with The Free State Project, and makes a case for those who care about liberty and freedom to make their homes in the Granite State. Justin is also a frequent podcaster, and publishes a weekly blog about libertarian ethics on substack under the title "Subversive."

Michelle Levell

Michelle Levell has been active in state-level education issues and policy for nearly 20 years. She is the director and co-founder of Granite State Home Educators, an all-volunteer 501c4, statewide support organization with over 14,000 members. The GSHE website is widely considered the most extensive resource for New Hampshire homeschoolers with over 700 articles and nearly 50 pages. GSHE also manages seven different social media groups to support our community. Michelle has extensive experience as a volunteer-advocate working with legislators, national organizations, and grassroots activists on a wide range of education issues. She served as a full-time volunteer for the largest scholarship organization in the state for five years, helped launch a chartered public school, served on the board of a nonpublic school, and served on additional boards of directors for other NH-based nonprofits. She has first-hand experience with home education, online learning, gifted and 2e education, as well as private education. Her three children are now college graduates and employed in their chosen careers -- a public-school math teacher, a PhD candidate and research assistant in computational material science engineering, and another as a civil engineer.

Daniel Rothschild

Daniel Rothschild has a Master's Degree in Economics from San Jose State University. Please don't let the fact that it was a state university scare you off. Sometimes you need to be in the belly of the beast to see how it operates (which is also why Daniel remains friends with many of his exes). Daniel has co-written articles on civil asset forfeiture that have appeared in academic journals. Daniel's economic writings mainly focus on law and economics, and policing, especially on the drug war and civil asset forfeiture. Daniel currently resides in New Hampshire with his zero children and zero pets.

Duane Lester

For almost 15 years, Duane Lester has been an outspoken proponent of individual liberty, limited government, and the principles of a free society. In 2007, he began his journey of grassroots activism by launching his website: All American Blogger. Leveraging communication skills learned while serving in the United States Navy as a Journalist, his writing earned him additional writing opportunities at some of the more popular center-right websites. Five years later, he was awarded the first Breitbart Blogger Award from the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity and The Heritage Foundation. Building on that success, he launched The Missouri Torch. Focusing on the political landscape in his home state. It wasn’t long before it was one of the most influential outlets in Missouri politics.

In 2015, Duane joined GLA as a Grassroots Trainer. Since then, he has created and delivered many popular presentations, including, “Making the Moral Case for Capitalism” and “How to Sell Freedom Without Starting a Fight.” He recently became a Certified Professional in Talent Development by the Association for Talent Development, a globally recognized organization for learning professionals. Duane currently lives in Missouri with his wife and nine children (you read that right) and is probably reading a book right now.

Leo Plante

Leo Plante resides in Dublin, NH. After retiring from the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs, he taught finance and economics at several universities, retiring from the University of Richmond. Leo is an active proponent of classical education and school choice. He is a founding director of the Lionheart Classical Academy in Peterborough, NH and a director of the NH Charter School Foundation. He is a graduate of Brown University and holds advanced degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Boston College in economics, finance and ethics respectively.

Kimberly Morin & Victoria Sullivan

Victoria Sullivan (Honorable Representative) and Kimberly Morin (2A Activist) have been working together to fight against gun control legislation and for our 2nd Amendment Rights at the State House for years. Victoria is the League’s Chairwoman and Kimberly is the President and a Founding member.

HM Clay

HM Clay is the author of Garden of Chaos, a novel of dystopian humor (purchase at: bit.ly/gardenofchaos).

“HM Clay” is the pen name of Clay Kriese.

Clay has lived a life of high adventure.

He is the co-host of the “80 of the 80s” Music Podcast (80ofthe80s.com). For several years, Clay was a radio DJ—spinning his favorite new wave tunes—and he has recorded several songs of his own. His latest album sold over 20 copies! (Actually, he had to give them away.) Previously, he operated the message board at Clemson football games. (He went to college there, too.)

For his work, Clay is the recipient of awards such as: The Grand Prize Egg at Mrs. Horton’s Easter Egg Hunt, Second Place at the Northeast Elementary 4-H Biscuit Making Contest, and Performer of the Week at Big Mama’s Karaoke Café.

Clay is currently a library director. He lives in New Hampshire with two funny sons and a beautiful wife. Sometimes he asks himself, “How did I get here?”

Nathaniel Heutmaker