Leslie Manookian is president and founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF), a nonprofit which seeks to rectify health injustice through education, advocacy, and legal challenges to unjust mandates, laws, and policies that undermine our health freedoms and human rights.
Under her leadership, HFDF has sued government and private businesses overturning medical mandates such as the federal travel mask mandate in 2022 and twice halting the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Covid vaccine mandate for employees.
She wrote and presented the Idaho Medical Freedom Act to the Idaho legislature, landmark legislation that passed April 4, 2025, making Idaho the first state in the nation to outlaw medical mandates for almost all. She is a former successful Wall Street business executive, documentary filmmaker, and qualified homeopath.
She conceived, wrote and produced The Greater Good, an award-winning documentary exploring vaccines. She serves on the boards of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Health Freedom Idaho, and the Health Freedom Foundation.
She has been featured in hundreds of TV, radio, print, and Internet interviews as well as appearing at numerous conferences. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, a BA from Middlebury College, and M.L.C.Hom from Lakeland College of Homeopathy and PHom from the Academy of Practical Homeopathy.