THE FEATURED SPEAKERS FOR PORCFEST XXII

Connor Boyack is the author of several dozen books, founder of a think tank that has changed over 100 laws, frequent public speaker, and outlaw beekeeper. 🐝

Connor is best known as author of the acclaimed Tuttle Twins book series which has sold over six million copies. The Tuttle Twins books teach kids (and their parents!) the ideas of a free society. He is also executive producer of the Tuttle Twins animated cartoon series.

A self-made entrepreneur, Connor is founder and president of Libertas Network, an association of family-facing initiatives that change hearts, minds, and laws to create a freer future. With his team he has changed over 100 laws, helped tens of thousands of kids become entrepreneurs, educated millions, and empowered families all over the world to learn about and defend the ideas of a free society.

Connor lives near Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife and two homeschooled children.

Corey A. DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Culture Project and a visiting fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has been labeled the “school choice evangelist” and called “the most effective school choice advocate since Milton Friedman.” He is a regular on Fox News and frequently appears in The Wall Street Journal. DeAngelis is also the executive director at Educational Freedom Institute, a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, an adjunct scholar at Cato Institute, a board member at Liberty Justice Center, and a senior advisor at Accuracy in Media. He holds a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Arkansas. He is the national bestselling author of The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools (Center Street, 2024).

Peter C. Earle, Ph.D, is the Director of Economics and Economic Freedom and a Senior Research Fellow who joined AIER in 2018. He holds a Ph.D in Economics from l’Universite d’Angers, an MA in Applied Economics from American University, an MBA (Finance), and a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Prior to joining AIER, Dr. Earle spent over 20 years as a trader and analyst at a number of securities firms and hedge funds in the New York metropolitan area as well as engaging in extensive consulting within the cryptocurrency and gaming sectors. His research focuses on financial markets, monetary policy, macroeconomic forecasting, and problems in economic measurement. He has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Barron’s, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, NPR, and in numerous other media outlets and publications.

Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. Scott the author of the 2024 book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War With Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. He is also the author of the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan and editor of the 2019 book The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 and the 2022 book Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. On his podcast, “The Scott Horton Show,” he conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott’s articles have appeared at Antiwar.com, The American Conservative magazine, the History News Network, The Future of Freedom, The National Interest , the Orange County Register and the Christian Science Monitor. He was featured in the 2019 documentary An Endless War: Getting Out of Afghanistan and contributed a chapter to the 2019 book, The Impact of War. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

Jack Hunter is a co-founder of Based Politics and the former Editor of Rare Politics. Jack has written regularly for The Daily Caller and The American Conservative and has appeared in Politico Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Spectator (UK), and Washington Examiner. In addition, he has been a guest on Bill Maher, Fox Business, Michael Savage, and Glenn Beck, and served as a guest host on The Mike Church Show on Sirius XM. Jack is the co-author of The Tea Party Goes to Washington by Sen. Rand Paul and he assisted former Sen. Jim DeMint with his book Now or Never: How to Save America from Economic Collapse. Jack was also the New Media Director for Sen. Paul.

Clifton Duncan conquered everything from musical comedy to Shakespearean tragedy, and is now pouring 20 years of talent, training and experience into taking on the greatest challenge of his career: Becoming Thomas Sowell. Clifton is a classically-trained actor, singer, writer, podcaster, and FAIR in the Arts fellow. Having earned his MFA from New York University’s renowned Graduate Acting Program, his critically-acclaimed body of work spans Broadway, off-Broadway, regional theatre, and TV. His outspoken views on art, entertainment, culture and society have garnered a substantial online following, and landed him on popular podcasts such as Triggernometry, TimcastIRL, and the The Dr. Drew Podcast. He’s also the creator of “The Clifton Duncan Podcast” and writes a newsletter called “The State of the Arts.” Clifton advocates for freedom of expression for professional artists, and believes that a thriving arts culture is crucial to a healthy society.

Learn more about Clifton’s project, Becoming Thomas Sowell: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sowell-a-solo-play-about-an-american-genius#/

Eric Brakey is the Executive Director of the Free State Project. He started in politics as an activist and eventual Maine State Director for the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign. After taking the Maine Republican Party by storm and winning the state for Dr. Paul at the Maine GOP Convention, Brakey then won a seat in the Maine State Senate, becoming the youngest state senator in America at the age of 26. Across his three terms of office, Senator Brakey led successful efforts to pass Constitutional Carry, Right to Try, welfare reform, market reforms to Maine’s medical cannabis program, and a variety of other policy initiatives. Senator Brakey ran as the Maine Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 2018 and Secretary of State in 2021. 

Jake Desyllas is an author and investor. In 2000, he founded Intelligent Space, an award-winning consultancy specializing in pedestrian movement simulation and analysis. After leading innovation in the field for a decade, he sold his business in 2010 and retired early at the age of 38. From 2010 to 2020, he hosted The Voluntary Life podcast. He is the author of Becoming an Entrepreneur, Job Free, and a forthcoming book on libertarian philosophy and the family. Jake holds a B.A. (Hons) from Bristol University and an MSc and PhD from University College London. He is currently based in New Hampshire.

Terry is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Free the People, an educational foundation reaching young people with stories about liberty. Free the People engages upstream of politics, using pop culture, video, comedy, and art—multimedia narratives about the beautiful things that happen when people are free to create, disrupt, and cooperate. She is also Co-Founder and Partner at Fight the Power Productions, a strategic communications firm focused on video production, social media branding and distribution, and compelling storytelling.

After graduating from Grove City College with a B.S. in Engineering, Terry spent the first decade of her career as an industrial engineer working with companies such as EDS and Unisys. Looking for a more personally fulfilling challenge, in 1997 she disrupted her own career, moving into the liberty-based nonprofit and philanthropic world. After serving as a chief of staff in the U.S. House of Representatives, she became a fundraiser, raising millions in operating capital for various nonprofit and political causes, including Cato, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and FreedomWorks. From 2009 to 2014, she served as Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of the Rising Tide Foundation in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and as an advisor to the Global Philanthropic Trust in the Cayman Islands. She was Co-Founder of AlternativePAC, and a fundraiser and advisor for a superPAC supporting U.S. Senator Rand Paul for President. Terry is a member of The Mont Pelerin Society and serves on the board of the Friends of the Austrian Economic Center.

Terry is often referred to as the better half of one of the top libertarian power couples in the world.

Naomi Brockwell is the President and Founder of the Ludlow Institute, a non-profit dedicated to advancing freedom through technology. Their media arm, NBTV, creates educational content to help people reclaim their privacy and autonomy online — they have over 1 million subscribers across platforms and over 65 million views of their videos.

From 2013 – 2015 she worked as a policy associate at the New York Bitcoin Center. From 2015 – 2021 she worked as a producer for 19-times Emmy-Award-Winning Journalist John Stossel. From 2021 to 2022 she hosted the CoinDesk series “Break it Down”, and the CoinDesk daily show “The Hash”.

Naomi was a producer for the 2015 feature documentary Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (Best International Documentary, Anthem Film Festival; Winner of Special Jury Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival), and producer of the 2018 award-winning documentary The Housing Bubble.

Naomi is the co-founder of “The Soho Forum”, a NY debate series. She is on the Advisory Council at the “Mannkal Economic Education Foundation”, and is author of “Beginner’s Introduction To Privacy”, and the children’s book “Billy’s Bitcoin”.

Sienna Mae Heath is The Sovereign Gardener. She is the star and writer of the short documentary Real Unity, produced by Free the People and screened at the Anthem Film Festival (FreedomFest) 2021. Now, Sienna is the host of Food is Freedom on Free the People, where she shares advice for novice gardeners and interviews farmers, natural healers, and food and flower experts. Sienna has also hosted Leaving the Left for Liberty, interviewing whistleblowers, dissidents, and alternative voices from the Western world, and penned the video-poetry piece titled The Trampled Woman on the same platform. Follow her cocreating a more beautiful world on Substack, Medium, Facebook, and Instagram.

Steve Patterson is the founder of the Natural Philosophy Institute, the host of the Patterson in Pursuit podcast, and the author of two books. He recently co-wrote Hijacking Bitcoin with Roger Ver, which appeared on the Tucker Carlson show. He has been a guest on many podcasts, including The Tom Woods Show, The Bob Murphy Show, and The DarkHorse Podcast with Bret Weinstein. He has been researching the foundations of many different subjects and is now leading the Dark Age Research Project.

Mike ter Maat is an Austrian-school economist and former candidate for Congress who ran for President and also Vice President as a Libertarian. In 2021-22, he campaigned as the LP candidate in the January special Congressional election in Florida’s District 20. Mike served as a police officer in Broward County from 2010 through 2021, including as a field training officer for several years, all as a registered Libertarian. Recently he announced that he has joined the Republican Liberty Caucus and the Republican Party.

Mike’s prior career in finance and economics included work with commercial banks, the White House Office of Management and Budget, and international and federal agencies. He advocated for free markets on behalf of the American Bankers Association for nine years before starting a professional education and strategic consulting business for bank executives in 2002, which he ran until 2009.
Mike has traveled in thirty-five countries, taught economics at three universities, and been a substitute teacher at dozens of Broward county public schools. He has one wife, two kids and two stepdaughters, two dogs, and one truck, a BS in Aeronautical Engineering, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and MS and PhD degrees in Economics from The George Washington University.

Marc J. Randazza is the managing partner of Randazza Legal Group. Randazza’s First Amendment calling came to him at the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst, where he studied Journalism, but focused most of his studies on First Amendment legal issues. After college, he worked as a journalist in Washington, DC, and Rome and Palermo, Italy, with sojourns on fishing vessels in Alaska, and oil tankers, tugboats, and freighters in the Caribbean and South Florida. After his journalist and mariner days, he attended Georgetown University Law Center, where he earned his Juris Doctor degree, and where he spent time clerking for the Supreme Court of Vermont and for Rydin Carlsten Advokatbyrå, a Stockholm-based intellectual property law firm. Immediately following law school, Marc received a fellowship from the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida, where he spent two years conducting in-depth research, publishing, and lecturing on First Amendment and intellectual property law issues. He also earned an LLM in International Intellectual Property law in Turin, Italy under a program run by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Following his fellowship, Randazza established a career focused on legal issues surrounding freedom of expression, intellectual property, and Internet law. His practice includes representation of defendants in SLAPP actions, protesters, and other free speech cases as well as intellectual property litigation and transactions. His practice includes representation of Internet businesses with Section 230 protection, adult entertainment businesses, and other businesses and individuals in intellectual property and free speech matters. Randazza was honored by Vegas, Inc. as one of Southern Nevada’s best attorneys for lawsuits and disputes. Randazza formerly taught First Amendment Law, Entertainment Law, Trademark Law, and Copyright Law at Barry University School of Law in Orlando, Florida. He is a frequent panelist at legal conferences focused on these issues. He is often asked for commentary in the mainstream media, and has frequently appeared on national television news shows, offering commentary on First Amendment legal issues. Randazza is past president of the First Amendment Lawyers’ Association. He is licensed to practice law in Nevada, California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Florida, all federal courts in those states, multiple federal appellate courts, and before the United States supreme court.

Martha Bueno has been a consummate entrepreneur. She started her first business with her mother at the precocious age of 17. By 32, Bueno’s company, PureFormulas.com made the Inc 500 list (#97) for fastest growing companies in the USA. Martha recently launched Our Good Products, a legal cannabinoid brand that is poised to revolutionize the edible marketplace. Our Good Products provide all the benefits of cannabinoids, in a formulation that guarantees rapid onset, greater bioavailability, and in a sugar-free, healthy alternative. Martha also ran for Miami-Dade County Commissioner in 2022, where she made national and International news for her innovative OnlyFans campaign. Martha has a passion for business and leaving the world a better, freer, place. Martha was an instrumental advocate to FREE ROSS!

Christopher Gronski, founder of DestinationFreedom, has been studying US Federal jurisdiction and State and federal tax laws for over 25 years and has been a Private Freedom Consultant for many Freedom minded Americans from around the world.

Christopher was the New Hampshire State Coordinator for We The People (www.givemeliberty.org) for over 10 years and is New Hampshire’s current President of Freedom Force International. (www.freedom–force.org). He has been active in supporting the Free State Project (www.freestateproject.org) since its inception and has been a guest speaker at PorcFest and Liberty Forum.

Christopher was a Selectman (Town Council) for the Town of Hill, New Hampshire. He has worked with New Hampshire State Representatives to write and pass laws that restrict government and protect Rights.

He has successfully been working with the U.S. State Department in acquiring United States Passports for State Citizens, without being a statutory U.S. (federal, 14th Amendment) citizen. He has helped Americans from around the world eliminate their Income Tax Liability through his Passport process. His State Citizenship work has been accepted by governments all over America including the New Hampshire State Department, New Hampshire Department of Motor Vehicles and New Hampshire Superior Court.

Christopher teaches State Citizenship Classes Online at DestinationFreedom.org and helps people eliminate various forms of debt, including dealing with the IRS and setting up Foreign Trust Organizations.”DestinationFreedom.org is a website and community of Freedom Minded Americans who have Eliminated their federal and State Income Tax Liability.

Austin Padgett is the Co-Host of History 102. A broad ranging history show with 50-100,000 views per episode. We tie the past to modern politics, incorporating libertarian analysis as an explanatory mechanism. 
Austin had worked globally as a business development executive and entrepreneur in the agriculture technology industry. You can follow him at LudwigNverMises on X. He will be having a discussion with Robert Murphy at PorcFest XXII on the subject of tariffs.

Lauren Noone is on her 18th Porcfest; that first one opened her eyes to a whole slew of topics she hadn’t considered before, and she has not stopped questioning everything since. This quest ultimately led within, and Lauren has been working in the realm of personal development for over a decade, realizing it is key to living a life of freedom in a voluntary community. In 2021 she moved to the Free State and founded Rooted Free Farm & Retreat Center in Henniker, a unique community gathering space on a historical farm, focusing on empowering people to live in truly sovereign ways. Lauren is trained in ceremonial facilitation and folk herbalism, and is currently working on certifications in trauma-informed plant medicine facilitation and breath work. She is an avid vegetable gardener, cans for fun, and has a weakness for chickens. Rooted Free welcomes many additional talented facilitators, and offers a variety of events year-round, which you can browse at http://rootedfree.com

Jody Underwood is the President/Chair of EdOpt. Jody Underwood has spent almost all of her life involved in education. Retired in 2023, she’s a learning scientist — she designed and produced software to help students learn or be assessed. For many years she worked for the Research Division of Education Testing Service (ETS), the people who bring you the SAT, NAEP, and other standardized tests. She served on the Croydon NH School Board from 2010-2023, serving as chair much of the time. She’s a founding board member of the non-profit School District Governance Association, whose mission is to help school board members discover their lawful powers. She has been involved in bill review, focusing on the vast number of education bills proposed each year, for the NH Liberty Alliance and for the SDGA.
Along with a small team, began the process of starting a charter school in the Upper Valley area. We found that the law wouldn’t allow us to do the type of school we wanted. But we learned a lot about the process along the way. Jody worked with the founders to set up Micah Studios, a learning center, in Newport NH, which started in September 2024. She has a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Education and a B.S. and M.S. in computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence. Jody’s dream has always been to revolutionize learning environments to engage individuals to move ahead at their own pace. She and her husband, Ian Underwood, moved to NH in 2007.

Tony Lekas is an NRA Training Counselor and Firearms Instructor and a three-term New Hampshire State Representative. Tony’s talk is a presentation on current New Hampshire firearms laws, a discussion of safe and polite carrying of firearms, and a Q&A for anyone new to carrying firearms and is interested in NH firearms laws.

Tom Mannion is a former Marine born and raised in Massachusetts, but he never felt like he fit in there. He had read about New Hampshire winning the title of the most free state and followed its progress on the personal liberty front for years. When 2020 hit and restrictions and lockdowns became the norm, he used New Hampshire’s libertarian spirit as inspiration to change his local community. Unfortunately, the people of Massachusetts were content living under the
security theater imposed by the State and he wasn’t able to make any progress. This prompted Tom to finally make the move to New Hampshire, a state better aligned with his beliefs. His new freedom has provided perspective on the failures of his home state and fueled his drive to keep New Hampshire moving toward liberty.

Constance Spencer is the team lead for Independence Realty Group, a Coldwell Banker Realty team made up entirely of Free State Project movers. Licensed since 2015 and a broker since 2021, she brings personalized service backed by a major brokerage. Before becoming an agent, she was an accountant for real estate investors and has been investing in real estate herself since her early twenties.

An early Free State mover from Alaska in 2014 with her four children, Constance embraced homesteading, permaculture, and education freedom, including homeschooling and alternative schools. She’s passionate about helping others achieve homeownership and build wealth through real estate—just as comfortable discussing peaceful parenting as she is retirement strategies with real estate.

A longtime Free State Project volunteer, she previously produced PorcFest, putting her management and accounting skills to work for the liberty community.

Sarah Thompson uses the tools of classical homeopathy and shamanic perspectives to facilitate the process of deep healing without drugs at the core level of susceptibility. She brings an holistic lens to the study of the history of medicine, the cartelization of medicine in the United States, and current social and political phenomena. Her own path to transformational healing came through her diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia in 2010. 

Sarah has a lifelong history with liberty in NH, having grown up in Concord, and has been featured by the Brownstone Institute, the Tom Woods Show, Lew Rockwell, the Health Freedom Defense Fund, and Building Parallel Solutions with Bretigne Shaffer. She can be reached through nodrughealth.com.  Health IS Freedom.

Stephen Villee is a software developer by profession. He is the author of the Club 75 Alliance Manifesto. He was one of the earliest Free State Project participants, moving to NH in 2003, and serving as the Treasurer for the Free State Project. He was also the Libertarian candidate for Governor of New Hampshire in 2024.

Raised in the Rocky Mountains above Boulder, Colorado, Joshua Groth has a passion for adventure and aviation has taken him around the world as a commercial pilot, paraglider pilot, BASE jumper, climber, and alpinist. After a decade flying outback air safaris in Australia, as the world was locked down during Covid, Joshua studied Austrian economics, exploring the history and nature of money. Joshua advocates for Bitcoin as a foundation for individual freedom, peace, and prosperity for humanity. Leveraging his aviation expertise in risk management and systems development, he provides innovative tools and best practices for bitcoin self-custody and personal sovereignty. As the founder of NovaSapien, Joshua’s team offers Bitcoin wallet recovery services, online courses, and self-custody kits and materials. With successful wallet recoveries from past PorcFest goers, his company NovaSapien is a gold-level sponsor this year. 

Find out more at www.novasapien.com 

Workshops and presentations will be held at Liberty 101, 9-10 am Wed – Sunday.

Jesse Smith is the co-owner of NORO Tactical. N.O.R.O. Tactical Solution focuses on responsible gun ownership through expert training and education. N.O.R.O.’s skilled instructors are dedicated to passing on their expertise, while our private range offers a secure and welcoming environment for hands-on learning. For more info visit: https://norotac.com/

Rep. Michael Granger is a Representative in the NH House of Representatives, and the leader of the Liberty Caucus. He’s a former board member of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance and works to make liberty a reality in NH through legislative action.
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Michael Liebowitz is a passionate Objectivist, author, and dynamic speaker with a deep commitment to reason, individual rights, and the power of free market capitalism. As the former Spokesperson for The Libertarian Party of Connecticut, and now serving as Vice Chair of the American Capitalist Party, he brings a wealth of experience in political activism and party  leadership.

In addition to his duties as the American Capitalist Party’s Vice Chair, Michael is also the engaging host of The Rational Egoist and Capitalist Corner podcasts, where he sparks lively debates and dives into the pressing moral, political, and philosophical issues of our time. With a keen interest in fostering critical thinking and personal growth, he is a dedicated mentor and role model to those seeking to improve their lives guided by the ethical and reason-based foundations of Objectivism. 

Eager to connect, discuss, and challenge ideas, Michael welcomes questions and interactions from anyone curious about liberty, capitalism, and rational living. To learn more about Michael, be sure to join him and American Capitalist Party Chair, Mark Pellegrino, on Capitalist Corner as they dive deep into current events that shape our nation, trailblazing the way back towards reason, rights, and liberty.