FSP President Featured in NH Magazine’s List of Remarkable Women

Congratulations to Free State Project president Carla Gericke for her listing in New Hampshire Magazine’s “Remarkable Women 2014: Game Changers” article.

Carla Gericke

Free Spirit

Writer and lawyer Carla Gericke is the daughter of a diplomat who lived on three different continents. She immigrated to the US in the 1990s, so, she says, “I’ve never accepted geography as fate.”

That perspective may be what makes her the leader (and cheerleader) for the Free State Project, which is about three-quarters of the way to its goal of finding 20,000 “liberty-minded” individuals willing to uproot and move to New Hampshire.
That’s the number required to “trigger the move,” explains Gericke, but Free Staters who moved in early (and plenty of libertarian locals who greeted them) have already made changes in the state.

She credits legislative decisions for jury nullification and marriage equality to the influence of Free Staters, plus lots of lower-profile action. “Some start pro-liberty organizations like the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, or private charities like Shire Sharing, or start businesses like the brothers in Manchester who founded Lamassu, the world’s first Bitcoin ATM,” she says. “The early movers I know are productive people and good neighbors who take pride in the Granite State and consider it home.” — Rick Broussard