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Mike Stollenwerk, Policy Fellow
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).
In February 2004, Mike prevailed in federal court against the Pennsylvania State Police to quash Pennsylvania’s statute requiring that Americans possess and disclose a social security number to apply for a gun carry license or buy guns from a gun dealer (see Stollenwerk v. Miller, Slip Copy, 2006 WL 463393, (E.D. Pa. 2006)(Pennsylvania statute requiring persons to disclose an SSN to buy a gun or obtain a gun carry license violates Section 7 of the Federal Privacy Act).
Stollenwerk retired from the US Army in the grade of Lieutenant Colonel after serving over 24 years on active duty where he served in various armored cavalry units in Germans and the United States, as well as an assistant professor of economics on the US Military Academy faculty at West Point, an economic consultant to Business Executives for National Security, a research fellow for the RAND Corporation, and a senior military campaign analyst for the Center for Army Analysis.
He holds a B.S. in economics from the US Military Academy, an M.B.A in financial engineering from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an M.M.A.S. in military strategy from the US Army Command and General Staff College’s School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), and is currently pursuing a J.D. at Georgetown University Law Center.
Kevin Rollins, Communications Director
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
Kevin has held a number of positions within the Libertarian Party, including chairman of the Libertarian Party of Buncombe County, NC, ballot access director of Libertarian Party of North Carolina, communications director of the Libertarian Party of Virginia, and editor of Virginia Liberty, LPVA's newsletter. During his chairmanship, the Libertarian Party of Buncombe County was awarded
Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from
Visit his personal blog at KevinRollins.com.
Alex Rollin, Technical Advisor
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
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 Reagan and as a Senior Policy Analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign.
He writes the weekly column "Foreign Follies" for theleading website antiwar.com. Previously a nationally syndicated columnist with Copley News Service and editor of the monthlypolitical magazine Inquiry, he has been widely published in such
periodicals as Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Christianity Today, foreign Policy, Harper's, National Interest, National Review, NewRepublic, Orbis, and World, as well as leading newspapersincluding the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and WashingtonPost. Bandow has written and edited several books, including foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire (Xulon Press),Leviathan Unchained: Washington's Bipartisan Big GovernmentConsensus (Xulon Press), The Korean Conundrum: America'sTroubled Relations with North and South Korea Palgrave/Macmillan, coauthor), Tripwire: Korea and U.S. ForeignPolicy in a Changed World (Cato), Perpetuating Poverty: The orld Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World (Cato, coeditor),and The Politics of Plunder: Misgovernment in Washington (Transaction).
He has also appeared on numerous radio and televisionprograms, including ABC Nightly News, American Interests, CBS evening News, CNN Crossfire, CNN Larry King Live, Good MorningAmerica, Nightline, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. He received his B.S. in Economics from Florida State University in 1976 and his J.D. from Stanford University in 1979.
Aaron Titus, Privacy Director
Aaron Titus developed www.ssnbreach.org, where anyone can search to see if their personal information has been exposed. Your personalized Identity Exposure Report (IXR) describes in detail what personal information has been exposed, under what circumstances, who is responsible, and their contact information. A free public service by the Liberty Coalition, SSNBreach.org currently contains more than 300,000 personalized IXRs.
Empowering victims to be their own advocates, SSNBreach.org gives the public an unprecedented amount of detail about data breaches. With a detailed report of which pieces of personal information were exposed, victims can make a personalized assessment of their own risks.
Aaron has appeared on radio, television, and internet radio programs across the country, and has written on privacy for the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Aaron has a diverse background, specializing in Information Privacy Law at the George Washington University Law School, and earning a BS in Architecture from the University of Utah.
Visit his personal blog at aarontitus.net/blog.
