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… Spena serves as legal counsel for the Center for Academic Freedom with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he defends the rights of students, professors, and organizations to speak, associate, and worship freely. Before joining ADF, … an editor on the Virginia Law Review. Spena earned his B.A. in Government: Political Theory from Patrick Henry College …

… director for Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is a member of the Strategic Affairs team. In this role, … over a decade of experience working with the public sector to grow, equip, and engage a broad alliance committed to … leadership and training programs, including the Summit on Religious Liberty, the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, Legal …

… Jared Dobbs serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is a member of the Corporate Counsel team. Before joining ADF, Dobbs served as an extern to Judge Consuelo M. Callahan at the U.S. Court of Appeals …

… president for strategic initiatives and special counsel to the president at Alliance Defending Freedom. He oversees … During his time in government service, Bangert handled a diverse array of matters involving Big Tech, election law, … . He speaks nationally on constitutional, cultural, and religious liberty issues. … Ryan Bangert … Senior Vice …

… vice president at Alliance Defending Freedom and is a member of the Executive Team charged with leading the organization to execute on its strategic objectives. In this role, she … matters and served as amicus counsel in several of ADF’s religious liberty cases, including Town of Greece v. Galloway …

… than 4,700 attorneys in the ADF Attorney Network in their religious freedom litigation efforts. He also directs the Bar … Project, which focuses on encouraging allied attorneys to participate in and influence bar associations to advance … of Minnesota Law School, graduating cum laude. He is a recipient of the Colorado Bar Association Pro Bono Award …

… president of appellate advocacy with Alliance Defending Freedom. Bursch has argued 12 U.S. Supreme Court cases and … litigated six matters with at least $1 billion at stake. A recent study concluded that among all frequent Supreme … had the 3rd highest success rate for persuading justices to adopt his legal position. Bursch served as solicitor …

… Alumni Services Team. She previously served at ADF as a first-year lawyer fellow on the Life Team. Prior to joining ADF, Kisley clerked for the Honorable Eric E. … on the Moot Court Board. She was commissioned in 2016 as a Blackstone Fellow. Before law school, Kisley graduated …

… protecting their constitutional freedoms and navigating religious liberty issues. Prior to joining ADF, Piccolo clerked in a Virginia Circuit Court and worked in private practice, …

… Schandevel serves as senior counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Appellate Advocacy Team. In that role, he … level, preserving lower-court victories and seeking to overturn unjust results. Among other clients, he has represented a faith-based pregnancy resource center and adoption agency, …