Keli Carender

Keli Carender (born c. 1981) is an American blogger credited with being the first Tea Party protest activist 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.

Carender, a teacher of basic math for adults, founded and co-chaired The Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty. She is a graduate of the Western Washington University, and has a postgraduate Certificate of Education in Secondary Math from the University of Oxford.