Free Now Foundation
California's leading medical freedom law non-profit
Why We Do Medical Freedom Work: California Children Must Attend School Safely Again
Please visit our lawsuits page for case dockets, and the latest articles on our cases to end vaccine mandates and, while we still have mandates, to expand exemptions.
We are the only state with a public health department vaccine dictatorship, where Newsom’s Department of Health both decides on the vaccine schedule and enforces it on our precious schoolchildren.
We now have vaccination without representation: parents and the federal government are cut out of the vaccine decision-making process.
California is defying the CDC, keeping the old schedule of 17 vaccines and about 90 doses, while the CDC now only recommends 11 vaccines and about 45 doses to align with European countries that give fewer vaccines and have far better health outcomes.
Pediatricians will never reveal to parents that the California school schedule is even smaller than both those schedules. For school, California students must have more than 30 doses of 10 vaccines.
When every medical encounter is seen as a vaccination opportunity, and sincere questions are treated as threats, families are rightly afraid of medical encounters.
This. Must. Stop.
As California’s leading medical freedom law non-profit, we use the courts, advocacy and education to create a California where:
- Children can attend school safely and without coercion
- Medical mandates are eliminated entirely
- True informed consent guides every healthcare decision
- Families trust that medical encounters will do no harm
- Medical refugee families feel safe returning home
- Deadly hospital protocols are halted and accountability is achieved
Recent communications indicate that our lawsuits — to end vaccine mandates and show that schools are not exempt from the Americans with Disabilities Act — are making the mandators nervous!
PETITION
We are running a petition urging public officials to pressure Governor Newsom to Make Vaccination Voluntary Again.
Please sign & share.
LEGAL WARRIORS CLUB
Recurring donors with a $30/month+ donation are part of our Legal Warriors Club. Members are invited to live quarterly Zoom call Q&As with attorneys and vaccine safety thought leaders, and get early bird access and discount codes to our events.
We will soon launch a revitalized Parental Powerhouse Toolkit Page to help everyone navigate options and exemptions within the complex vaccination scheme in California, created by SB277, SB276 and AB144.
PAST SUCCESS
Our past work was very successful. Free Now Foundation (under our original name) helped stopped illegal COVID shot mandates at K-12 schools, forced colleges to back down from discriminatory COVID policies and helped get Newsom to reverse his Doctor Gag Order law. Our lawsuits also sent a strong message to County Supervisors that they must always meet in public, and uncovered corruption among County Supervisors who were violating the law to benefit from CARES Act “COVID Cash.”
Free Now Foundation is the re-branded group that took over for the original Children’s Health Defense – California Chapter.
ANNUAL IRS FILLINGS
Free Now Foundation believes that freedom and accountability go hand in hand. As a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting medical freedom and informed choice, we are equally committed to transparency, integrity, and responsible stewardship of every dollar entrusted to us.
We want our supporters, partners, and the public to know how we use our resources to advance our mission. Below you’ll find our IRS Form 990 filings, which detail our financial activities and demonstrate our ongoing commitment to transparency and accountability.
ANNUAL IRS FILING – FORM 990:
Your trust allows us to continue defending medical freedom through education, advocacy, and legal action. Thank you for standing with us and helping protect the rights of all Californians.
Meet Our Board
Alix Mayer
In 1996, Ms. Mayer (pronounced: MY-er) was running a worldwide research group for Apple Inc., when she got 6 vaccines for a vacation and became disabled, brain damaged and lost her career. Now substantially recovered, she is Board Chair and President of Free Now Foundation, the leading medical freedom law non-profit in California.
Ms. Mayer is an in-demand speaker, and her lively presentations on 1/ Real ID: Weaponized Architecture, 2/ ABV: Anything But Vaccines, 3/ The Measles Manipulation of RFK Jr., 4/ The Legal Howdunnit of COVID, and 5/ The 7 Levels of COVID Fraud, have earned her recognition and accolades. “I know women in VP positions who do not hold a candle to this woman’s sunlight,” stated a commenter on a recent interview with Mike Adams, “She gives me hope that humanity still lives.”
Ms. Mayer formerly served on the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) board, co-founded & served as Chairman of CHD’s most successful Chapter in California, helping raise in excess of $5M, and served on RFK Jr’s Presidential campaign finance committee, raising hundreds of thousands for the campaign.
In 2022, she won the Golden Bear Award and a presentation she gave to Dr. Mercola was named a “Best of” interview. Ms. Mayer grew up in the Oscar Mayer family, and has degrees from Duke (BA) and Northwestern (MBA.)
Alix Mayer, MBA
Board Chair & President
Kim Leonoudakis
Kim brings 40 years of extensive experience in tax and financial accounting, committed to providing exceptional service to individual clients and small businesses. She has also demonstrated her expertise by managing tax audits for a Fortune 500 company.
She began her career in public accounting and achieved her California CPA license in 1988. In 1996, her career path shifted to part-time due to chronic health issues. Despite these challenges, she continued her financial and tax work for individuals and small businesses, and expanded her knowledge to assist families as a personal estate organizer.
Her career took another turn in 2013 after becoming debilitated from a flu shot. Kim completely healed from 23 years of chronic health issues using a self-directed neuroplasticity program. Based on her personal health journey, Kim is a firm believer in medical freedom and the importance of thoroughly educating oneself before undergoing any medical treatments.
Kim became a supporter of Free Now Foundation as she aligns with their vision and joined the board in June 2025.
Kim Leonoudakis
Treasurer
Liz Handley
A mom of three, Liz is a fierce advocate for informed consent and parental choice. Working in the medical world as a research coordinator at Stanford University, Liz saw first-hand the corruption that takes place in order to push drug and device products through research pathways for corporate profit. She also witnessed the normalizing of “higher-ups” forcing medical procedures to keep your job status (ie flu injections). Once the lockdown era rolled in, it was no surprise that similar and stronger mandates were rolled out, with many accepting the “new norm”. Liz’s unique ability to seek out what is underneath mainstream health suggestions and mandates makes her an asset to the Free Now Foundation team. Her goal is to see the “new norm” as medical freedom for all California families.
Liz Handley
Secretary
Dr. Richard Fox M.D., JD
Dr. Richard Fox is a Board Member currently on leave. He runs a vaccine-optional pediatric practice in Los Gatos, CA and has the unusual distinction of holding both an M.D. and a law degree. Dr. Fox was one of U.S. News & World Report’s Top Doctors as Chosen by Their Peers in 2012-2013. He has twenty-four medical research papers published in peer-reviewed journals and numerous abstracts and presentations. Dr. Fox was a Pulmonary Fellow at the Webb-Waring Lung Institute and taught in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado and Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of Minnesota Medical School, and of Santa Clara University Law School.
Dr. Richard Fox
MD JD (On leave)
Kent Heckenlively
Kent is an attorney, science teacher, and two-time New York Times bestseller. He is best known as coauthor of the PLAGUE series (PLAGUE, PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION, & ENDING PLAGUE) with Dr. Judy Mikovits and Dr. Francis Ruscetti, winner of the Distinguished Service Award from the National Institutes of Health. He has also become the unofficial biographer of Project Veritas whistleblowers, coauthoring with Zach Vorhies, GOOGLE LEAKS, as well as BEHIND THE MASK OF FACEBOOK with Ryan Hartwig. The third in his series of books with Project Veritas whistleblowers, THIS WAS CNN: How Sex, Lies, and Spies Undid the World’s Worst News Network, coauthored with Cary Poarch, was published in 2023. Currently, Kent is working with a fourth Project Veritas whistleblower, David Johnson, for a book currently titled, KILLING MARTIN’S DREAM, about Critical Race Theory.
Kent believes he has become the “Voldemort of the literary world” as on May 17, 2020, Chuck Todd of Meet the Press devoted an entire five-minute segment to denouncing his book, PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION, without even mentioning the title of the book or the names of authors. Also in 2020, his book, THE CASE AGAINST MASKS, also written with Dr. Judy Mikovits was dropped by Amazon and had to eventually be published with a different title. In 2017, Kent received the dubious honor of being the only American writer banned by an entire continent, as Australia denied his planned lecture series on vaccines as being “a threat to public order.”
With more than 10,000 Amazon customer reviews, a 4.7 average ranking out of 5.0 stars, critical praise from Kirkus Reviews, including a highly coveted “Kirkus preferred review” for his book on interferon, as well as his books being translated into ten languages, Kent may be our country’s most fearless writer on the corruption of our institutions.
Kent Heckenlively
Dan Dixon
Dan is Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of NeuX Technologies, an innovative biotechnology company whose technologies treat chronic pain, neurological disorders, soft tissue injuries and improve the human condition.
Dan Dixon
Dr. Jeffrey Barke
Dr. Jeffrey Barke is a board certified primary care physician in private practice for over 25 years. He completed his medical school and family practice residency at the University of California, Irvine. He has served as an Associate Clinical Professor at U.C. Irvine and a board member of the Orange County Medical Association. Dr. Barke is a commissioned officer in the US Army Reserve Medical Corps. He is also a reserve deputy and a tactical physician for a local law enforcement SWAT team. Dr. Barke also served as an elected school board member for the Los Alamitos Unified School District for 12 years and is the co-founder and current school board chair of a free public charter school in Orange, CA called Orange County Classical Academy that uses Hillsdale College’s curriculum. Dr. Barke is the author of COVID-19, A Physicians Take on the Exaggerated Fear of Corona Virus. He is a sought after speaker on the failure of government education and all things related to COVID-19. Dr. Barke is a proud founding member of America’s Frontline Doctors. He is also the co-host of the podcast: InformedDissentMedia.com
Dr. Jeffrey Barke
Jessica Barsotti
Jessica Barsotti is a litigation partner representing FNF in the lawsuits against school mandates and prolonged local states of emergency through the Facts Law Truth Justice law firm. Jessica is a public interest graduate of UC San Francisco’s Hastings College of Law and has been an attorney and civil litigator for 21 years in Oakland, CA through her firm The Law Office of Jessica R. Barsotti. She has represented clients in civil rights, Constitutional rights, housing rights, police misconduct, real estate, business, and insurance litigation, including litigation involving faith organizations. In 2020, Jessica turned her attention to medical freedom and Constitutional rights litigation as the main focus, due to the incredible government overreach and Constitutional degradations that she witnessed surrounding COVID-19. As a mom of two teenagers attending California public schools, Jessica knows exactly what parents are going through in the districts trying to push various mandates on our children and attempting to remove parental involvement. She is dedicated to helping spread the word about the violations occurring, and how to fight back against them. You can reach Jessica at [email protected].
