Keli Carender

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| birth_date = {{circa|1981}}

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| 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

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| website = {{URL|redistributingknowledge.blogspot.com}}

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Keli Carender (born c. 1981)[https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/keli-carender-takes-tea-partys-mixed-messages-to-the-streets/ Keli Carender takes Tea Party’s mixed messages to the streets | The Seattle Times] Retrieved 2018-12-12. is an American blogger credited for being the first Tea Party protest activist{{cite news|newspaper = The New York Times|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28keli.html|first = Kate|last = Zernike|date = February 27, 2010|title = Unlikely Activist Who Got to the Tea Party Early}}{{cite news|publisher = NPR|url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123229743|date = February 2, 2010|title = Tea Party Star Leads Movement On Her Own Terms|first = Martin|last = Kaste}}{{cite magazine|magazine = The New Yorker|url = http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/01/100201fa_fact_mcgrath?currentPage=2|title = The Movement: The rise of Tea Party activism|first = Ben|last = McGrath|date = February 1, 2010}} 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.{{cite web|work = Redistributing Knowledge|url = http://redistributingknowledge.blogspot.com/2009/01/solution-revolution.html|author = Liberty Belle|date = January 25, 2009|accessdate = September 15, 2010|title = Solution Revolution}}{{cite news|publisher = Investor's Business Daily|url = http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&issue=20090220|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090227063634/http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&issue=20090220|archivedate = February 27, 2009|date = February 20, 2009|title = Anti-Stimulus Protests Sprout Up|first = David|last = Hogberg}} [http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2009/02/antistimulus_protests_sprout_u.html Alt URL]{{cite web|work = MichelleMalkin.com|first = Michelle|last = Malkin|authorlink = Michelle Malkin|url = http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/16/from-the-boston-tea-party-to-your-neighborhood-pork-protest/|title = From the Boston Tea Party to your neighborhood pork protest|date = February 16, 2009}}