Marinelli (born March 28, 1986) is an American-born political activist of the California independence movement organized under the Yes California Independence Campaign, an umbrella organization representing the coalition of parties and organizations supporting the proposed California independence referendum planned for 2019.
Marinelli is currently the president of Yes California and the former interim chairman of the California National Party, under which he also ran for California State Assembly in California's 80th State Assembly district representing south San Diego, National City, Chula Vista, San Ysidro, and the surrounding communities.
In 2016, he moved to Yekaterinburg, Russia but now resides in Moscow, Russia.Prior to his ideologically-progressive California secession and independence activism, Marinelli was a controversial figure in the debate over same-sex marriage in the United States until his public resignation from the National Organization for Marriage in April, 2011 out of his new-found support for marriage equality rights.