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Natalie Danelishen

Natalie Danelishen

Natalie Danelishen is a well-known proponent of liberty who previously served as an administrative assistant at the Free Cities Foundation. Earlier in her career she worked for liberty-focused non-profit think tanks. A mother of three, she sees Free Cities as a way of securing freedom for the next generation.

A self-taught graphic designer and writer, she worked for the Mises Institute and the National Constitutional Law Union before joining the Foundation, where she helped organise its international conferences and produce its published material.

She is better known to a wider audience under the handle Chesschick01, where her graphics and commentary on liberty, money and family have built one of the more engaged followings in the movement, and she holds one of the Principality of Sealand’s noble titles.

She home-schools her three children, and treats that as the same project by other means. The reason to want a freer jurisdiction is that somebody has to live in it afterwards, and they will have been taught by someone.

  • 4 min read

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    Free City Updates: Dubai, Próspera’s flat tax and Destiny
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    Titus Debates, Step Inside and the American West

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    Titus Debates, Step Inside and the American West
  • 5 min read

    Venzuela, Speaker Announcements & Seasteading Opportunities

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    Venzuela, Speaker Announcements & Seasteading Opportunities
  • 6 min read

    Honduras Election, Grokipedia, Sark & What’s Ahead

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    We’ve Been Waiting Years to Share This…

    As many of you know, the Free Cities Conference is the one time each year when our project representatives from around the world come together to share their progress.

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