Avens O'Brien
Feminism Needs to Stop Calling the Cops: Why the Criminalization of Social Problems Backfires
Board Member, Feminists for Liberty
Avens O’Brien is the Administrative Director of Lit.Club, a Los Angeles based cannabis startup. She’s also the founder of Not That Kind of Feminist, a Facebook group for feminist & non-feminist folks to critically analyze & discuss news & culture related to feminism. Having grown up in a home of Libertarian political activists in New Hampshire, she was the youngest Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party of NH (2006-2008) & has worked on multiple liberty-oriented campaigns, from municipal to presidential elections. Prior to her work in the startup & cannabis communities in Los Angeles, she worked for Peter Schiff at Euro Pacific Capital. O’Brien is also known for her photography & speaking engagements at liberty conferences around the US & world, her writing for outlets such as Thoughts on Liberty & The Libertarian Republic, and her highly engaged Facebook audience. Her entire online catalog of work can be found at
http://avens.me