Gordon Soderberg

BioLiberty, LLC

Part owner of Bio Liberty, LLC, a biodiesel producing company, along with his partner, Kevin Curley DDS. Located on a 28-acre parcel in Slidell, Louisiana, Bio Liberty specializes in producing biodiesel from used vegetable oil to be utilized in off-road vehicles, as well as training veterans to make biodiesel in coordination with Bio Liberty. Gordon is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and served as a seaman, corpsman, and surgical technician during his tenure from 1982-1989. Gordon is also a videographer, webmaster, and artist.

Gordon came to New Orleans on September 1, 2005, (two days after Hurricane Katrina) from Crawford, Texas, where he was engaging in peace activist work with Cindy Sheehan. When It became clear that Hurricane Katrina was going to be a devastating disaster, he and a handful of other medically trained veterans loaded their Veterans for Peace Tour Bus with supplies and headed to New Orleans. They used the media attention they got from their peace activism to call attention to the effects of the war on the relief efforts on the Gulf Coast by producing videos, a website, and artist renderings. Michael Moore reposted their videos and blogs on his website, and within three weeks, they had raised over $500,000 which was used to set up volunteer camps and fund other grassroots organizations working on direct aid along the Gulf Coast from Mississippi to New Orleans. By combining his technological skills and veteran interests, Gordon has since created Bio Liberty, and its website, www.bioliberty.net, as a conduit to provide sustainable jobs to veterans as it relates to the reconstruction of the Gulf South.