About

Michael D. Ostrolenk, Co-founder/National Director

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Michael is a public policy consultant who works on health, education, privacy, foreign policy, national security and food-related issues. His clients include but are not limited to: The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Swankin & Turner law firm and the Arlington Institute.

Liberty Coalition Sitewide Categories - A Description

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Kristen N. McNutt

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Kristen N. McNutt is a graduate student in the Master of Nonprofit Management program at Regis University. Her undergraduate degree is in Women's Studies from Northern Arizona University with a focus on international affairs. In 2003, Kristen authored a briefing paper entitled "Sexualized Violence Against Iraqi Women by U.S. Occupying Forces," which was presented to the United Nation's Commission on Human Rights in March of 2005. Kristen plans to pursue a PhD in Women's Studies but in the interim she continues to work in her fields of interest: politics, media and human rights advocacy.

Catherine Szilagyi

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Catherine Szilagyi is a third year Sociology and Political Science/International Affairs double major at the University of California, Riverside. After graduation, she plans to serve in the Peace Corps for two years and then return home to attend graduate school in journalism. As a Hungarian-American, Catherine was raised to be aware of international issues. She aspires to succeed in the field of investigative journalism in order to uphold the ideals that the United States was founded upon.

Caitlin Ritchie

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Caitlin Ritchie is a sophomore majoring in Spanish at Smith College in Massachusetts. She is a member of the Smith College track and field team and also volunteers as an English tutor for new immigrants in her community. Caitlin plans to spend her junior year studying in Spain, and hopes to live and work in a Spanish speaking country for a time after graduation.

Jaime Mendoza

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Jaime Mendoza is a recent graduate of Loyola Marymount University with a B.A. in Political Science as well as a B.A. in Asian Pacific Studies. Jaime is currently taking time off to work both for the Liberty Coalition and on his own projects. He plans to eventually apply for graduate school in international relations, journalism, or business. Jaime is fluent in Spanish and can speak some Mandarin Chinese. He is a world traveler, and an avid student of international relations. Jaime believes that it is every citizen's constitutional duty to stay informed of the current political landscape.

Mike Stollenwerk, Policy Fellow

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Mike Stollenwerk is a Policy Fellow of the Liberty Coalition. He chairs the Fairfax County Privacy Council (a volunteer citizens’ privacy watchdog group in Virginia), serves on the Virginia General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Technology & Science’s SSN Advisory Committee, is an executive member of the Virginia Citizen’s Defense League (Virginia’s large and aggressive grass roots gun rights group), and co-founded OpenCarry.org (an educational web site and electronic discussion board dedicated to explaining and promoting Americans’ existing rights to carry handguns openly in most states of the United States).

Kevin Rollins, Communications Director

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Kevin Rollins is communications director of the Liberty Coalition. He also is editor of The Free Liberal and serves as president of The Center for Liberty and Community. Before creating The Free Liberal, he worked with George Mason University's Students for Individual Liberty to publish The Beltway Free-Marketeer.

Alex Rollin, Technical Advisor

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Alex Rollin serves as the maintainer of the technical infrastructure for Liberty Coalition. He has a deep seated interest in helping transpartisan dialogue to flourish within the US and around the world. He has a background in Liberal Arts and Technology and has worked in business, policy, and marketing. He can be reached through alexollin.com.

Doug Bandow, Senior Policy Fellow

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Doug Bandow is Vice President of Policy for Citizen outreach, a Washington-based grassroots political organization.He also is the Bastiat Scholar in Free Enterprise and the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cobden Fellow in International Economics at the Institute for Policy Innovation.

He was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. Before that he served as a Special Assistant to President Ronald Reaganand as a Senior Policy Analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign.