Biographies
Lauren A. Elkerson
General Counsel
Lauren A. Elkerson serves as General Counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom. In this role, she serves as counsel to ADF as it carries out its organizational mission and leads the corporate counsel team.
Frank Basgall
Senior Counsel
Frank Basgall serves as senior counsel for the Center for Life at Alliance Defending Freedom, where he works to defend mothers and unborn babies through litigation and public advocacy.
Alexandra Gaiser
Senior Counsel
Alexandra Harrison Gaiser serves as senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom Corporate Engagement team.
Noah Nash
Legal Counsel
Noah Nash serves as legal counsel for the Corporate Engagement Team with Alliance Defending Freedom.
Rosemary Cochrane
Legal Counsel
Rosemary Cochrane serves as legal counsel for the Allied Legal Affairs Team at Alliance Defending Freedom.
Brian Knight
Senior Counsel
Brian Knight serves as senior counsel on the Corporate Engagement Team. His work focuses on issues of financial access, debanking, and preventing the power of the private sector from being weaponized against people of faith by both public and private actors.
Mark Tjernagel
Executive Vice President
Mark Tjernagel serves as Executive Vice President of Operations with Alliance Defending Freedom. In this role he provides leadership to the Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Facilities, Security, Events, and Audio-Visual teams.
Liana Imparato
Copywriter
Liana serves as a copywriter at Alliance Defending Freedom. She holds a BA in Communications from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a certificate in Editing from the University of Chicago.
Daniel Grabowski
Legal Counsel
Daniel Grabowski serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, working primarily in the Center for Conscience Initiatives.
Matthew Ray
Legal Counsel
Matthew Ray 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.
Mercer Martin
Legal Counsel
Mercer Martin serves as legal counsel for the Center for Free Speech at Alliance Defending Freedom, where he works to defend free speech and combat global censorship and coercion.
Caroline C. Lindsay
Senior Counsel
Caroline C. Lindsay serves as senior counsel on Alliance Defending Freedom’s Appellate Advocacy Team.
David Demirbilek
Legal Counsel
David Demirbilek serves as legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. He primarily assists members of the Church and Ministry Alliance with protecting their constitutional freedoms and navigating religious liberty issues.
Andrew Spangenberg
Director of Allied Legal Affairs
Andrew J. Spangenberg serves as director of Allied Legal Affairs with Alliance Defending Freedom.
Natalie Thompson
Senior Counsel
Natalie D. Thompson serves as senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, where her practice in the regulatory litigation group focuses on federal administrative law’s impact on religious freedom and the sanctity of life.