Meet The Team

Nena Bartlett Whitfield is from Ann Arbor, Michigan and moved to Washington, DC upon completing her Master’s program in Diplomacy from Norwich University in Vermont in 2007. She has worked at the Cato Institute and has been involved with a number of political campaigns, most recently as assistant campaign manager for then-junior Senator Rand Paul. After the 2010 elections, Nena joined Sen. Paul in his Washington, DC office as a Legislative Aide on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. In 2013, Nena left Capitol Hill to work with the Ladies of Liberty Alliance as their first full-time Executive Director. Nena is active in her community as a founding member and former Treasurer of the DC Liberty Toastmasters, Chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of DC, and the former Vice President and Treasurer of the Norwich Alumni DC Chapter.

Holly Jean, a native New Yorker, was introduced to libertarian and free market ideas as a teenager taking her first Economics class at Valencia College. After falling in love with economics and liberty, she went on to obtain her B.S. in Economics at George Mason University under the most free-market oriented faculty in the world. Holly Jean has worked for liberty-minded organizations such as the Mercatus Center and Institute for Humane Studies and has been with LOLA for the past 6 years where she has dedicated herself to supporting libertarian women across the globe. Holly Jean is an Economist and has an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Harvard University.

Izabela is a member of the leadership team of LOLA Brazil and is the Director of Development. She is a Ph.D in Law and Political Economy from the University of São Paulo. She is a Frédéric Bastiat Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. While working as a researcher, she began to question her support of heavy government regulations and discovered the ideas of classical liberalism through the work of economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen. She was also Policy Director in a Liberty minded Brazilian non-profit before joining the LOLA team.

Anne Dias is a lawyer and pro-liberty activist. She holds the role of regional president for LOLA Brazil and serves as the director of the LOLA Chapter Program. Anne has been actively involved in political campaigns and has also worked as a political advisor in the state parliament of Paraná. In 2022, she ran for the position of state representative in Paraná, located in southern Brazil.

Jess is a British libertarian from Manchester. Her passion for liberty activism comes from seeing the increase in big government and wokeness in the UK. In addition to being the Communications and Social Manager of LOLA, Jess is also the host of LOLA’s podcast Miss Libertarian and a co-leader of LOLA England. Alongside LOLA, she is also a fellow for the Foundation for Economic Education, an apprentice for the Mises Institute and a contributor for the Reasoned UK. In addition, she frequently appears on British television, writes in various publications and has a prevalent social media presence on TikTok and Twitter. She is also currently studying Politics at Kings College London.

Letícia Barros is a lawyer, entrepreneur and social media strategist. She is the vice-president and the director of communications of LOLA Brasil. She has worked on a presidential campaign directly with the candidate as well as with a city councillor in Rio de Janeiro. She is a fellow in the Prometheus Fellowship program, run by Students for Liberty and the Prometheus Foundation. Letícia currently works with political marketing and runs her own agency.

Lyba Fatima was born in a small city in Uttar Pradesh, India. She completed her Bachelors in Law from the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University(AMU), in the year 2023. She has been a lifelong advocate of liberty and individualism but her real passion in liberty and individual freedom was ignited when she came across the works of Ayn Rand in the year 2018 during her first year at law school. Rand introduced her to the profound concept of liberty as the foundation of a just society. Shortly after, she was introduced to LOLA. For the last 5 years she has been working tirelessly to promote LOLA’s mission of educating and empowering female leaders within the liberty movement.

Nena Bartlett Whitfield is from Ann Arbor, Michigan and moved to Washington, DC upon completing her Master’s program in Diplomacy from Norwich University in Vermont in 2007. She has worked at the Cato Institute and has been involved with a number of political campaigns, most recently as assistant campaign manager for then-junior Senator Rand Paul. After the 2010 elections, Nena joined Sen. Paul in his Washington, DC office as a Legislative Aide on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. In 2013, Nena left Capitol Hill to work with the Ladies of Liberty Alliance as their first full-time Executive Director. Nena is active in her community as a founding member and former Treasurer of the DC Liberty Toastmasters, Chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of DC, and the former Vice President and Treasurer of the Norwich Alumni DC Chapter.

Nena Bartlett Whitfield is from Ann Arbor, Michigan and moved to Washington, DC upon completing her Master’s program in Diplomacy from Norwich University in Vermont in 2007. She has worked at the Cato Institute and has been involved with a number of political campaigns, most recently as assistant campaign manager for then-junior Senator Rand Paul. After the 2010 elections, Nena joined Sen. Paul in his Washington, DC office as a Legislative Aide on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. In 2013, Nena left Capitol Hill to work with the Ladies of Liberty Alliance as their first full-time Executive Director. Nena is active in her community as a founding member and former Treasurer of the DC Liberty Toastmasters, Chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of DC, and the former Vice President and Treasurer of the Norwich Alumni DC Chapter.

Nena Bartlett Whitfield is from Ann Arbor, Michigan and moved to Washington, DC upon completing her Master’s program in Diplomacy from Norwich University in Vermont in 2007. She has worked at the Cato Institute and has been involved with a number of political campaigns, most recently as assistant campaign manager for then-junior Senator Rand Paul. After the 2010 elections, Nena joined Sen. Paul in his Washington, DC office as a Legislative Aide on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. In 2013, Nena left Capitol Hill to work with the Ladies of Liberty Alliance as their first full-time Executive Director. Nena is active in her community as a founding member and former Treasurer of the DC Liberty Toastmasters, Chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of DC, and the former Vice President and Treasurer of the Norwich Alumni DC Chapter.

Nena Bartlett Whitfield is from Ann Arbor, Michigan and moved to Washington, DC upon completing her Master’s program in Diplomacy from Norwich University in Vermont in 2007. She has worked at the Cato Institute and has been involved with a number of political campaigns, most recently as assistant campaign manager for then-junior Senator Rand Paul. After the 2010 elections, Nena joined Sen. Paul in his Washington, DC office as a Legislative Aide on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. In 2013, Nena left Capitol Hill to work with the Ladies of Liberty Alliance as their first full-time Executive Director. Nena is active in her community as a founding member and former Treasurer of the DC Liberty Toastmasters, Chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of DC, and the former Vice President and Treasurer of the Norwich Alumni DC Chapter.

Nena Bartlett Whitfield is from Ann Arbor, Michigan and moved to Washington, DC upon completing her Master’s program in Diplomacy from Norwich University in Vermont in 2007. She has worked at the Cato Institute and has been involved with a number of political campaigns, most recently as assistant campaign manager for then-junior Senator Rand Paul. After the 2010 elections, Nena joined Sen. Paul in his Washington, DC office as a Legislative Aide on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. In 2013, Nena left Capitol Hill to work with the Ladies of Liberty Alliance as their first full-time Executive Director. Nena is active in her community as a founding member and former Treasurer of the DC Liberty Toastmasters, Chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of DC, and the former Vice President and Treasurer of the Norwich Alumni DC Chapter.

Nena Bartlett Whitfield is from Ann Arbor, Michigan and moved to Washington, DC upon completing her Master’s program in Diplomacy from Norwich University in Vermont in 2007. She has worked at the Cato Institute and has been involved with a number of political campaigns, most recently as assistant campaign manager for then-junior Senator Rand Paul. After the 2010 elections, Nena joined Sen. Paul in his Washington, DC office as a Legislative Aide on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. In 2013, Nena left Capitol Hill to work with the Ladies of Liberty Alliance as their first full-time Executive Director. Nena is active in her community as a founding member and former Treasurer of the DC Liberty Toastmasters, Chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of DC, and the former Vice President and Treasurer of the Norwich Alumni DC Chapter.