Jeremy Tedesco

Jeremy Tedesco serves as senior counsel and senior vice president of the Counter Censorship Task Force at Alliance Defending Freedom, where he leads the organization’s efforts to confront and dismantle coordinated systems of corporate and state-sponsored censorship in the United States and abroad. He directs a cross-functional, cross-Atlantic initiative that integrates litigation development, legislation, corporate engagement, research, coalition-building, and communications, coordinating efforts across the organization to address censorship at its most influential points.

In 2022, Tedesco oversaw the launch of the Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index, the leading benchmark for measuring corporate respect for free speech and religious freedom. Leveraging findings of the annual Index, Tedesco’s team authors and supports shareholder proposals at major corporations like Apple, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Meta.

Immediately preceding his current role, Tedesco served as senior vice president for communications, where he was a lead convener of the Philadelphia Statement, a movement dedicated to restoring free speech and civil discourse. Tedesco also launched a video series called Freedom Matters, which introduced ADF clients, cases, and issues to over 75 million viewers.

Earlier in his career, Tedesco litigated First Amendment cases at all levels of the federal court system. He was part of the legal team that represented cake artist Jack Phillips in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission before the U.S. Supreme Court and argued Phillips’ case at the Colorado Court of Appeals. He was also the lead brief writer in two other U.S. Supreme Court wins, Reed v. Town of Gilbert and Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn.

Numerous media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, Fox News, CNN, The New York Times, USA Today, PBS, NPR, and National Review, have interviewed Tedesco or published his comments. Tedesco earned his Juris Doctor in 2004 from the Regent University School of Law.