Moms for Liberty co-founder Justice joins conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Moms For Liberty co-founder and former Indian River County School Board member Tiffany Justice is joining the conservative Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow to focus on parent rights.
Justice formed Moms for Liberty in 2021 with former Brevard County School Board member Tina Descovich, initially to fight against COVID-era mask mandates and to push for parental rights in school. Since then, Moms for Liberty has grown to about 130,000 members and 300 chapters nationwide.
The group has moved from mask mandates to challenging books in school libraries that members feel are inappropriate for children because of their sexual content.
In her new position, which she began this month, Justice will oversee the Heritage Foundation's parental rights initiative, according to a Jan. 24 news release from the organization. The initiative is "working to dismantle the barriers that radical ideologues have erected between parents and their children and restore parents' rightful authority to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children," according to the release.Justice began her journey "as a mom who cared about her kids" and someone who wanted to ensure parents had a say in their child's education, she said Friday in a phone interview with TCPalm from the White House, where she was observing a roundtable discussion on school choice.