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Lathan Watts serves as VP of Public Affairs at Alliance Defending Freedom

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 ...

Andrew D. Graham serves as Senior Counsel, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Strategic Affairs at Alliance Defending Freedom. In his role, he designs ADF’s academic initiatives and professional-development programs, including the Blackstone Legal Fellowship; engages with thought leaders around the world; and speaks at academic gatherings, universities, and think tanks on law, politics, and culture. Additionally, Graham is a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington, DC; an elected member and trustee of The Philadelphia Society; an elected member of The Mont Pelerin ...

Erin Morrow Hawley serves as senior counsel and vice president of the Center for Life and regulatory practice at Alliance Defending Freedom.

Alison (Ali) M. Kilmartin serves as senior counsel and vice president of Allied Legal Affairs with Alliance Defending Freedom. In this role, she leads the Allied Legal Affairs team, which is dedicated to recruiting, engaging with, and strategically deploying over 4,700 attorneys aligned with ADF’s mission to protect and promote life, religious liberty, free speech, marriage and family, and parental rights. Attorneys in ADF’s network have played important roles in hundreds of precedent-setting matters and 72 victories at the U.S. Supreme Court, including serving as lead or co-counsel alongside ...

Julie Marie Blake serves as senior counsel for regulatory litigation at Alliance Defending Freedom. Over the last decade, she has been on the front lines of high-profile, precedent-setting cases challenging federal overreach in courts across the country.

Katie Vizzerra serves as legal counsel of Blackstone Alumni Relations at Alliance Defending Freedom overseeing alumni of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship.

Rebecca Eggleston serves as Executive Vice President at Alliance Defending Freedom.

Matt Bowman serves as senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, where he focuses on the impact of administrative law on religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and family.

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