Prior to joining Reason, Randazzo was the chief of staff at The Policy Center in New York, founded by former Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler. Randazzo has also served as the foreign policy correspondent for webzine World on the Web, and as a paralegal for Florida's leading eminent domain law firm, Fixel, Maguire & Willis, located in Orlando. His work has been featured in The Detroit News and various online publications. He also serves as the associate editor of the world's most respected newsletter on privatization, Privatization Watch.
Randazzo graduated from The King's College, in New York City with a B.A. in politics, philosophy, and economics. He lives in Arlington, Virginia and works out of the Reason Washington, D.C. Office.
Dalmia's work has appeared in Reason magazine and numerous other print publications, such as the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, The Weekly Standard, San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Tribune. She is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal op-ed page.
Dalmia, who taught news writing courses at Michigan State University, earned a Master's degree in mass communication from Louisiana State University. She also holds a B.S. from the University of Delhi and a post graduate diploma in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communications.
She lives in the Detroit area with her husband and son.
"Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!" -- George Washington, letter to James Warren, March 31, 1779
"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." -- James Madison
Rev. Peterson is the Founder and President of the national nonprofit organization BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, whose purpose is “Rebuilding the Family By Rebuilding the Man”. He is also the author of the book, “SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America”. Rev. Peterson is also a TV host and highly sought-after speaker.
Jesse is frequently seen on major TV networks such as Fox, CNN, and MSNBC, consistently leaving his liberal counterpart in knots. His unflappable, can-do attitude and absolute commitment to truth are the perfect medicine for a value-challenged society.
An exceptionally charismatic speaker, Rev. Peterson is a hit among audiences nationwide. Among his popular titles: “Rebuilding the Family By Rebuilding the Man”, “From Rage To Responsibility”, “Stop Reparations Now!”, “We Shall Overcome Civil Rights Leaders”, “Abortion: Black Genocide”, and “Government’s War On the Family”.
Character is the most important word in Rev. Peterson’s vocabulary. Born on a plantation in Midway, Alabama, Rev. Peterson is this generation’s Booker T. Washington. Jesse practices what he preaches, operating the BOND Home For Boys, a character building after-school program, and many other programs and activities that benefit men and their families. His organization is a prototype for a bold new approach to solving our ever-increasing urban crisis.
Rev. Peterson is an advisory board member of Project 21, a national black conservative public policy organization.
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If `Thou shalt not covet' and `Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." -- John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787
"The Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to theConstitution. But this doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution." -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 81, 1788
"The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it." -- James Wilson, Of the Study of Law in the United States, Circa, 1790
"The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. ... How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?" -- John Adams, Diary, June 2, 1778
"As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight." -- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country." -- Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788
"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit." -- James Madison, Federalist No. 51, February 8, 1788
She earned her MBA from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1986 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Bethany College in Math/Computer Science (1976). She worked at Westinghouse Electric, Computervision Corporation, and Analog Devices, and consulted for numerous small and medium-sized businesses in Massachusetts.
Carla Howell is a great-granddaughter of the Honorable William Eustis Russell, a former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a granddaughter of 1950s Boston socialite Margaret Russell Howell.
Sepp has appeared on every major television network, and regularly provides interviews and commentaries to Cable channels such as CNN, MSNBC, and the Fox News Channel. He is a frequent guest on radio programs from coast-to-coast, and has been widely featured in print media, including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, and Money Magazine. A recent edition of The Right Guide found that out of hundreds of organizations surveyed for media citations, NTU placed number one among grassroots taxpayer groups.
Sepp graduated cum laude from Webster University in St. Louis, MO in 1986 with a B.A. in History and Political Science and with Associate Degrees in Legal Studies and German. While attending Webster he earned a National Merit Scholarship and was the University's nominee for the prestigious Harry S. Truman Political Science Scholarship. Before coming to NTU, Sepp served with the St. Louis County Board of Elections and the Kit Bond for Senate Committee.
Sharon was one of the three finalists for the National LP’s “Thomas Paine Award for Outstanding Libertarian Communicator” – selected by members of the party and presented at the 2000 National Convention.
She also has the honor of being one of the most successful Libertarian Party candidates ever -- receiving over 300,000 votes in her race for Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture in 1994.
Prior to being chosen as President of the Advocates, Sharon was owner and manager of a successful book indexing business for 17 years. She also has worked as a free-lance writer, a magazine-article-writing instructor, managing editor of the Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, and as a team-building trainer for businesses and organizations.
Sharon has been active in the libertarian movement since the early 70s. In 1972, she was a co-founder of the Libertarian Party of Georgia (LPGA) and cast one of a handful of Georgia write-in votes for 1972 Libertarian Party presidential candidate John Hospers. She served the LPGA in many capacities, including being a member of the Executive Committee, editor of the Georgia Libertarian, meetings chair, convention coordinator, Cobb County LP co-founder and chair, and delegate to national conventions.
In 1988, she was Campaign Manager for the LPGA’s three Public Service Commission candidates -- an historic campaign that won state-wide ballot status for the party. In 1990, she served as an aide and consultant for the party’s gubernatorial campaign.
In 1994, she was the party’s candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture, receiving 23% statewide and 34% in 3 metro-Atlanta counties -- a total of over 300,000 votes in a two-way race against Georgia’s most entrenched incumbent. This was the most votes ever received by a Libertarian candidate in Georgia, and the most votes received by any third-party candidate in the state in this century. The campaign’s results was among the best ever for any state-wide LP candidate nationwide.
Also in 1994, she was one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state of Georgia which challenged the Constitutionality of Georgia's law which required candidates for office to take a drug test. The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Georgia libertarian attorney Walker Chandler won the case, thus overthrowing the law.
Sharon is the author of "The Invisible Hand Is a Gentle Hand," an article which demonstrates the beauty of a truly libertarian society, and author of "They Pry Them from Our Cold, Dead Fingers."
As Advocates President, she is publisher of The Libertarian Communicator magazine and of the world’s largest libertarian email newsletter, The Liberator Online, with over 65,000 readers in 100+ countries.
The Advocates for Self-Government is also creator, publisher and distributor of the world-famous, eye-opening World's Smallest Political Quiz; creator of Operation Politically Homeless (OPH) booths; sponsor of Lights of Liberty awards for libertarian activism, and much more.
An award-winning speaker, Sharon has presented libertarian ideas on radio talk shows, on TV, to college political science classes, before service clubs, and to Libertarian and Republican gatherings. She has also been interviewed by the editorial boards of several major newspapers.
Topics Sharon has spoken on include: powerful communications skills for libertarians; reasons for optimism about the liberty movement; the future of liberty; what one person can do to further the cause of liberty; what a truly libertarian society would be like; Myers-Briggs Personality Types.
Libertarian groups Sharon has addressed include: state LP conventions in New York, California, Texas, Michigan, Massachusetts, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New Jersey, Washington State, Georgia, Alabama, Montana, Connecticut; West Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, The Libertarian Party of Canada’s national convention; The Libertarian Party USA’s national conventions; Success ‘97 & 99’ in Georgia, North Carolina, Maine and Minneapolis; International Society of Individual Liberty 2000 convention in Ontario Canada.
Sharon has a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Educational Psychology. She earned Certification by the Association for Psychological Type for teaching, administering and interpreting the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the world’s most widely used personality inventory.
She lives with her husband, writer and editor James W. Harris, in Rydal, Georgia. She has one grown daughter and three perfect grandchildren.
"Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind." -- James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1790
"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave." -- John Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
Dalmia's work has appeared in Reason magazine and numerous other print publications, such as the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, The Weekly Standard, San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Tribune. She is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal op-ed page.
Dalmia, who taught news writing courses at Michigan State University, earned a Master's degree in mass communication from Louisiana State University. She also holds a B.S. from the University of Delhi and a post graduate diploma in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communications.
She lives in the Detroit area with her husband and son.
"One single object ... [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Livingston, March 25, 1825
"The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day." -- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833