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Abigail Bongiorno serves as legal counsel with the Church and Ministry Alliance at Alliance Defending Freedom. Bongiorno practices First Amendment law, primarily advising Church and Ministry Alliance members to best protect their religious liberty rights. Prior to joining ADF, Bongiorno worked for Thomas More Society, where she assisted in upholding the First Amendment rights of pro-life organizations and advocates. Bongiorno earned her J.D. from University of Wisconsin Law and obtained her B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science and Spanish from Eastern Michigan University. She is a 2017 ...

Erica Steinmiller-Perdomo serves as legal counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Public Policy. Her work focuses on protecting life from conception to natural death. Before joining ADF, Erica clerked on the Florida Supreme Court and Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal. She also served as a criminal prosecutor in the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office. Erica earned a Juris Doctor in 2015 from the Florida State University College of Law where she served as managing editor of the Law Review and vice president of the Cuban American Bar Association student chapter. She ...

Kristi Kisley (née Denny) serves as legal counsel on the Blackstone Alumni Services Team.

Mallory Rechtenbach serves as legal counsel on the Parental Rights team at Alliance Defending Freedom. Rechtenbach earned her J.D., with highest distinction, from the University of Nebraska College of Law and was selected for Order of the Coif. During law school, she served as Articles Editor for the Nebraska Law Review and as a research assistant to Professor Richard Duncan. Following law school, Rechtenbach completed fellowships at the Institute for Free Speech and ADF. Next, she clerked for the Honorable L. Steven Grasz on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Rechtenbach was ...

Vincent Wagner serves as senior counsel with the Center for Parental Rights at Alliance Defending Freedom where he safeguards parents’ rights to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children.

Christiana (Holcomb) Kiefer serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is a key member of the Center for Conscience Initiatives.

While the Oregon government has allowed small public schools under 75 students to open, it has told private schools of the same size that they must remain closed.

Photographer Emilee Carpenter wants to create art consistent with her beliefs, but New York laws have threatened her rights.

College of the Ozarks filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over an order to redefine ‘sex’ to include ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity.’

An appellate court ruled that a lawsuit from four female athletes who were forced to compete against males can proceed.