Known fondly as the “Data Dude,” Karl Kanthak brings a powerful combination of experience, intelligence, and a charismatic skillset to open hearts and minds. He is a lifelong educator and elected school board official specializing in the inaccurate data being used to restrict citizen access to both public, taxpayer supported, and private education. His activities include being a patient safety advocate for preventing medical errors, unnecessary treatment, and undesirable pharmaceutical interactions. He has been defending the personal and religious exemptions in Washington State since 2019, and his advocate testimony has been sought after all over the country. Other projects include educating Health Care Providers about the identification of Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Associated Disability and Gadolinium

Dr. Russ Witte graduated with Honors in Physics from the University of Arizona (1993) and Bioengineering from Arizona State University (PhD, 2002), where he studied sensory coding and learning-induced plasticity in the mammalian brain using microelectrode arrays. Following a 5-year postdoc experience in the Biomedical Ultrasound Imaging Lab at the University of Michigan, he returned to his hometown Tucson, joining the faculty in the Dept. of Radiology at the University of Arizona in 2007.

Dr. Jane Orient has served as the Executive Director of AAPS since 1989 and is the President of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. She is the editor of AAPS News, the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter, Civil Defense Perspectives, and is the managing editor of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. More than 200 of her papers and op-ed pieces have been published in the scientific and popular literature on a variety of subjects including risk assessment, natural and technological hazards and nonhazards, and medical economics and ethics. She is the author of YOUR Doctor is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Healthcare and more.

Heather Meyers is a doctor’s wife, a homeschooling dance mom to four children, an animal nursery leader, and a poop and rock farmer who is dipping her toes into regenerative agriculture. She is also a doula and teaches private music lessons in person and online having taught private music lessons for over twenty years. She chooses to teach privately to be home with her children during their formative years. Her greatest hope and goal is for her children to grow up healthy and strong. Heather holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Education K-12 from the University of Utah and studied education psychology and violin. Before attending the U of U, Heather attended Salt Lake Community College as a recipient to Scholarships in both Music Theory and Harmony and as a choir piano accompanist for their concert choir. Heather shares her personal experiences that woke her up to the possible dangers and harm vaccines may cause, as well as the deep regret, isolation and rejection mothers of vaccine injured children experience. Wanting these mothers to have a voice and feel her support that they are not alone, Heather has written a musical about one mother’s struggle with the repercussions of vaccine injury. The musical is based off of her own story and the stories of two of her friends whose children were also harmed. Heather believes the messages from this work can be a powerful catalyst to open the minds and hearts of those who have not yet listened to the message that vaccines can cause harm.

Born in Boston, the cradle of liberty, Lisa von Geldern now lives in what she has begun to call “The Saddle of Liberty”: Arizona. Lisa has been involved in learning and advocating for the genius of our founding values as espoused in the Declaration of Independence from an early age. At about 13 years old her father called her a “Bircher” without explanation. Nearly 40 years later she found and joined The John Birch Society-realizing that unlike the partisan two party structures, the John Birch Society best educates and has a plan for people to fight against the encroaching usurpation of our God-given rights. Lisa is a “happy wife” to her husband Kurt, and the blessed mother to two girls plus a “bonus mom” to her son, and countless other young people. Currently she works as the Arizona and New Mexico Field Coordinator for the John Birch Society.

Ann Rose Dichov is bucking the system! She spent her younger years working as a nurse in hospitals and clinics within the conventional sickcare delivery system in the United States. Ten years ago she left that system to work as an independent patient advocate to help people get out of that sickcare system and avoid the problems to ever enter the broken system in the first place. Today, she continues along that freedom path, with a focus of resisting the medical tyranny that has been forced on American society including regular visits to the Pima County Board of Health meetings.

Terra Radliff is a former Deputy Sheriff and Detective, wife, mother and grandmother of two beautiful angels. “I want a future for them where they can enjoy freedom, so I will never stop fighting to give them that chance.”

Lauren McElroy advocates for Health Freedom and is the Tucson Coordinator for the Arizona Chapter of Children’s Health Defense.

Sue Ann Christenson is a health minded citizen, now activist for freedom and body autonomy. She is a retiree of the University of California at San Diego, as a Transportation Supervisor and was an Exercise Instructor until March of 2020. She has a passion for spirituality, well-being and a compassionate heart for our world. Loves fun and good food. Believes we have the right to choose and respects other’s rights for themselves. Wants the world to heal and really know we are Connected as One. Everyone is on their own path of discovery and exploring, harm no one in the process, have compassion, be abundantly kind. Avoid the desire for power and greed.

One might be tempted to call Pendleton Spicer a Renaissance woman. She has travelled down many paths in her over ¾ of a century here on this planet. Those paths include but are not limited to being a horseback riding instructor, a 21 dealer, an assistant librarian at the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind, a teacher, and a veterinary technician in her early years. Those years were followed by being a plumber, an electrician, and a medical electronics technician. The paths in her later years included being a master’s level transpersonal psychotherapist, an animal communicator, an energy healer, a program coordinator, president of her neighborhood association, a founder of the Old Fort Lowell Live-At-Home program, some political activism including being secretary of the Libertarian Party of Pima County. She topped all this off by finding her heart in music and plays the Native American style flute professionally. Her love of nature is evident in her love of camping and hiking, her gardening endeavors and spending time with her two beloved felines, Ben and Stewie.

Peter Norquest is an affiliated scholar at the University of Arizona’s School of Anthropology. He is a historical linguist whose research focuses on the Southeast Asian language area, particularly Kra-Dai and Austronesian. His book, A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai, is a revised and updated version of his 2007 dissertation, and is a comprehensive account of Hlai language prehistory and phylogeny using data collected during fieldwork performed on Hǎinán in 2003-2004. He has authored and co-authored several articles on Kra-Dai and Austronesian comparative phonology, and is currently preparing a phonological reconstruction of Proto-Kra-Dai in cooperation with the Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Inc.

A long-time supporter of Health Freedom, Ursula Conway is honored to serve as President of the Arizona Chapter of Children’s Health Defense. Recent restrictions, impositions, and censorship by our governments, both local and federal, served as a call to action for all those who, like Ursula, believe in the right of individuals to make their own health care decisions. Naturally, these rights extend to the care of one’s children. Together, we are determined to improve the health of our children, and educate others regarding agency capture, now rampant in the medical/pharma/government agency complex. And ultimately, Children’s Health Defense is committed to holding those responsible for injuries, accountable for their crimes. Ursula chose southern Arizona upon retirement from her role as an IT executive in the Gaming and Hospitality industry. She was drawn by the community’s independence, multi-cultural influences, and the astonishing beauty and diversity of the Sonoran Desert, the Sky Islands, and borderlands.

Dru Heaton is the founder and director of the Humans for Humanity Coalition. The organization’s mission is to awaken individuals to the health and human rights crisis of our day. She is also serving as the current chairman for the Libertarian Party in Pima County, and as such, she is an advocate for the rights of ALL Arizonans (Heaton4Arizona.com). She is committed to returning the balance of power back into the hands of the people and out of the hands of politicians.