Team


Etienne de la Boetie²
Author, speaker & activist

Etienne de la Boetie² is the nom de plume of a voluntaryist author, father, technology entrepreneur, cyclist, runner, hot yogi, multi-disciplinarian truther, armchair economist, cryptocurrency enthusiast, and neo-abolitionist who is experimenting with large-scale cult deprogramming. Mr. Boetie² distills 20+ years of research into short, easily-digestible treatises on individual subjects and optimizes them for the 65% of society who are visual learners. Boetie includes references and links to more comprehensive research and the “authentic voices” of the developing alternative media.

Mr. Boetie2 is the founder of a start-up public policy organization: The Art of Liberty Foundation that is developing voluntary and free market solutions to social issues while exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government”, and the hidden curriculum of organized crime’s mandatory government schools, scouting programs, and police/military “training”: The pseudo-religion of Statism, obedience, fealty, “order-following” and tax slavery. Mr Boetie is the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! and its companion media: The Liberator – A viral flash drive, Dropbox and/or Data DVD full of liberty resources that both expose organized crime’s control system and provides the healthy alternatives of voluntaryism, freedom, love, tolerance, agorism, counter-economics, and crypto-currencies. The physical book and the flash drive are specifically designed for hand-to-hand distribution to get around organized crime’s “propaganda matrix” of six monopoly media companies running hundreds of subsidiaries and ~ two dozen internet search, social media, and video sites that offer the illusion of choice and diversity of opinion on the DARPA Internet.

Mr. Boetie² is a misplaced Texan who splits his time between New Hampshire, as part of the Free State Project and Pre-State Project, and Arizona where he stands ready to help federal, state and local law enforcement understand the people and organizations behind organized crime’s control of the government and media.

Kirk Dennis
Vice President, Publications and Sponsorship Program

Kirk is a voluntaryist and seasoned business executive that leads our development efforts and is expanding our publications business. He was formerly the principal of Kirk Dennis Inc (KDI) – a management consulting firm that specialized in developing marketing plans and sales strategies for companies in the high-tech industry. Besides KDI, he has founded and built three other diverse companies, including a wholesale computer distributor, Boulder Computer Systems; a nationwide LAN/WAN systems integrator – SigmaCom, Inc; and a videoconferencing company, VideoCom, Inc.

Business highlights include:

  • $250M plus in personal sales over entire career
  • $110M sale to Lockheed Martin in 1986 (global conversion from IBM to Compaq computers)
  • Starting SigmaCom with one other person and a credit card and taking it public as Cavion, Inc. on the NASDAQ Exchange in 1999.

Kirk graduated from Wittenberg University (Springfield, Ohio) with a B.A. in philosophy. As a student, Kirk traveled to Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India for a one-year independent study consummated in a book-length manuscript entitled: “Bodh Gaya – The Holiest Buddhist Shrine.” Bodh Gaya is where the Buddha sat under the Bodhi Tree and received enlightenment. Just like Jerusalem for the Judeo/ Christian religion and Mecca for Islam, Bodh Gaya is considered the holiest place in the Buddhist world.

While living in India, Kirk stayed at the Bodh Gaya Ashram – the international headquarters for disciples of Mahatma Gandhi and the birthplace of the Indian independence movement that drove the British from India. After Gandhi was assassinated in 1949, Vinoba Bhave (1895 – 1982) became the new leader of the Gandhi organization. Bhave was an Indian advocate for nonviolence and human rights. Often called Archaya (teacher in Sanskrit), he is best known for establishing the Bhoodan Movement to provide donated land to the poor (over 1,000 villages) for cultivation.

Henry Reyes
Operations Director

Henry is responsible for IT operations and customer service at the Art of Liberty Foundation.

Julie Marie
Public relations and development

Julie is fluent in three languages and has a degree in World Languages and Literature. Her love for adventure has taken her to several countries, where she has worked and pursued her studies. Julie is also a former ballet dancer and a pedagogical teacher for The School of Classical Dance. In addition to her love for the arts she is passionate about holistic health and received two certifications as a Regenerative Detoxification Specialist and Natural Hygienist.

Ada Medina
Digital Marketing and Social Media Director

I’m Ada Medina, a Venezuelan industrial engineer specializing in digital marketing. I currently work as a Digital Marketing Manager and Social Media Handler at Art of Liberty. My focus is on creating effective strategies, managing social media, and boosting our online presence. I combine technical knowledge with creative skills to achieve tangible results. Working with a creative team, I help build a strong brand identity.

Grant Ellman
Musician / Activist

Grant Ellman is a musical fellow of the Art of Liberty Foundation.

Grant ‘Prezence’ Ellman is a multi-instrumentalist, record producer and artist from Sedona Arizona. His recent truth-bomb Scam was censored from Spotify within a week of release. After making waves with Scam, he collaborated with Dicky Barrett and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a song featured in The Highwire.

He’s a multi-instrumentalist and producer from Oregon whose work attracted more than a half million streams on Spotify, and a Billboard feature.

His purpose is to spread freedom, truth and love through Reggae. He is half of the conscious reggae duo Prezence, (they put the “Zen” into “Presence”.) and his liberty ballads include Scam (https://artofliberty.org/scam/) and Losin Dey Minds.

Self produced, original sounding tracks, live drums, intricate vocal arrangements and a CONSCIOUS MESSAGE!

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Howard Lichtman Author, Researcher, Speaker
...</p> <p>Howard S. Lichtman is a visual collaboration-focused technologist and consultant with specialties in organizational and individual productivity. He is the founder and president of the Human Productivity Lab, an independent consultancy and research firm that helps organizations design visual collaboration strategies and deploy solutions. Mr. Lichtman has specialties in designing visual collaboration strategies, visual collaboration for Agile methodologies, and evaluating next-generation technologies for their ability to improve individual and organizational productivity.</p> <p>He was the founder and publisher-emeritus of Telepresence Options a boutique publishing company devoted to next-generation visual collaboration and telepresence technologies.</p> <p>Mr. Lichtman is also the author, editor and/or co-author of Deloitte’s TEKculture/Modern Meetings Magazine, Telepresence Options Yearbook (multiple editions), The Inter-Company Telepresence and Videoconferencing Handbook, The Telepresence and Videoconferencing Exchange Review, Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration and the Future of Global Business at the Speed of Light, and Emerging Technologies for Teleconferencing and Telepresence.</p> <p>Mr. Lichtman is a frequent commentator on next-generation technologies for improving both individual and organizational productivity including: augmented reality, virtual reality, telepresence, videoconferencing and effective visual collaboration and his writings on and analysis have been featured by Forbes, US News and World Report, Telephony Magazine, CXO Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Reuters, Pro AV Magazine, Killer App Magazine, ABA Banking Journal, Bank Systems and Technology Magazine and CFO Magazine among others.

https://humanproductivitylab.com/

Derrick Broze
Derrick Broze
...</p> <p>Derrick Broze is a freelance investigative journalist, documentary film maker,author, and public speaker seeking to expose corruption, find solutions to the problems that affect all of humanity, and promote localization and decentralization. Derrick is a Houstonian who has survived depression, drug addiction, and prison. Since 2010, he has dedicated his life to improving the City of Houston and the world at large, as an activist, journalist, and radio show host. In 2019, Derrick joined the race for Mayor of Houston. As a Mayoral Candidate, Derrick called for giving away the power of the Mayor of Houston and amplifying the voices of Houstonians. As of 2020 he is the author of 5 books and writer of 5 documentaries.

https://www.derrickbroze.com

David Rodriguez
David Rodriguez
...</p> <p>David is a Voluntaryist who believes that all human interactions should be voluntary, that no one should be allowed to use violence and extortion on anyone else, and not even “Government” should have an exemption from basic morality.</p> <p>He is the head of the Gatto Project with the mission of helping parents remove their children from forced schools so they can pursue an education with dignity, respect, and empowerment. David was republishing the works of John Taylor Gatto, New York State’s teacher-of-the-year turned whistleblower. These works expose the unethically manipulative hidden curriculum in the Government’s mandatory schools.

https://linktr.ee/DavidJamesRodriguez