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… Emily LaFata Copywriter Emily LaFata serves as copywriter at Alliance Defending … for ADF’s Corporate Engagement and development teams. Emily holds an M.A. in government from Hillsdale College’s … in New Hampshire. Now a resident of Northern Virginia, Emily hails from Scranton, Pennsylvania, best known as the …

Emilie Kao serves as senior counsel and vice president of advocacy strategy for Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is a member of the U.S. Legal Team. In this role, she supports ADF’s legal and legislative objectives through culture shaping initiatives. Before joining ADF, Kao served as director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation. She led a team of experts who provided strategy, research, and policy recommendations on life, marriage, and religious freedom consistent with Constitutional principles. She convened coalitions of strategic partners to ...

… When local Assistant Principal Emily Mais courageously voiced her concerns to Albemarle … division and hostility, you can’t raise concerns about it. Emily has turned to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) to help … ideologies—and support teachers and administrators like Emily? Please sign the Stop the Discrimination in Our Schools …

… When Assistant Principal Emily Mais merely questioned the CRT-inspired curriculum that … based on their race. The work environment got so bad that Emily was eventually forced to resign. With her Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, Emily has sued the school district, which violated her …

The story of this family’s experience is shocking. Schools have a responsibility to keep parents informed—they cannot hide information about a child’s mental or physical well-being from their parents. At Alliance Defending Freedom, we defend people’s fundamental rights in cases across the nation. Each year, we receive THOUSANDS of requests for legal assistance, many from families just like the Perez family. Critical legal battles like these impact your fundamental freedoms, and thanks to Alliance Defending Freedom’s Grants and Funding Program, our network of attorneys are able to stand ...

Our culture is increasingly hostile to those of faith and common sense. Every day, Americans are losing their jobs, their businesses are threatened, and their speech is silenced. But we’re hopeful, not anxious, about the future of freedom. We have an opportunity to engage our culture, and we’re going to double down in 2024 in three key ways: countering censorship, challenging gender ideology, and securing parental rights. It’s going to take the entire alliance—including folks like you—to successfully contend for the truth. Will you step up right now with a gift of $50, $75, $100, $250, or more ...

Our culture is increasingly hostile to those of faith and common sense. Every day, Americans are losing their jobs, their businesses are threatened, and their speech is silenced. But we’re hopeful, not anxious, about the future of freedom. We have an opportunity to engage our culture, and we’re going to double down in 2024 in three key ways: countering censorship, challenging gender ideology, and securing parental rights. It’s going to take the entire alliance—including folks like you—to successfully contend for the truth. Will you step up right now with a gift of $25, $50, $75, $100, or more ...

… Brett Harvey Senior Counsel, Vice President of Client and Alliance Engagement Brett Harvey serves as senior counsel and vice president of client and alliance engagement with Alliance Defending … understand opportunities, needs, goals and priorities for client development; leveraging ADF networks to identify …

Chris Schandevel serves as legal counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Appellate Advocacy Team.

People should be free to express their beliefs without the threat of government punishment. But right now, New York threatens to misuse the law to punish Emilee for her views on marriage unless we stand up and win in court. That’s why Emilee Carpenter needs your support as Alliance Defending Freedom stands with Emilee for her right to speak freely. A win for Emilee is a win for free speech. Our work to defend Americans like Emilee relies on the support of people like you. Alliance Defending Freedom needs more support to take on dangerous laws like these that impose serious penalties on ...