Tea Party Founder

• Prize
  Silver in Press/People/Personality
• Photographer
  Kenneth Hughes, United States
• Studio
  Redux Pictures
• Website
  http://reduxpictures.com/

Keli Carender is a Seattle, Washington-based 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.