Lois Kaneshiki is the state coordinator for Pennsylvania for Moms for Liberty, a grassroots organization dedicated to defending parents’ rights in education. She is the first state coordinator to be hired by this national organization. Before that she worked with No Left Turn in Education as their Pennsylvania Director of Candidate Training. 

Lois has been active in local politics for over 20 years, and specifically, school board elections since 2011, recruiting candidates and helping to get them across the finish line. In 2021 she founded Take Back Our Schools Pac to help elect reform-minded candidates to school boards in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania who will fight CRT/SEL in our schools. 

Ms. Kaneshiki was elected to the Hollidaysburg Area School Board in 2015. She garnered front-page news coverage for some of her principled stands on the school board, including refusing to vote to adopt text books with anti-American bias and environmental propaganda. 

Ms. Kaneshiki was instrumental in the movement to fight the Common Core Standards in Pennsylvania, and spoke in front of the Pennsylvania School Board, receiving applause from attendees, before they misguidedly adopted the Common Core revisions to the school code. She has also been instrumental in fighting legislation pushing counter-productive mental health policy in our schools. 

Ms. Kaneshiki has over 25 years of campaign and grassroots organizing experience. She served as Chair of the Blair County Republican Committee 2016-18 and was President of the Blair County Republican Women from 2008-16. 

Ms. Kaneshiki home schooled her 2 daughters for many years. 

Ms. Kaneshiki is a staunch advocate of school choice, home schooling, parental rights, and classical education. She resides in the Harrisburg area. 

Ms. Kaneshiki can be reached at [email protected].