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The Dunn Civil Liberties Project supports a series of guest lectures by prominent civil liberties practitioners. We invite compelling speakers to inspire our students to incorporate civil liberties work into their lives. Guest lecturers engage our students in the classroom, taking part in a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed to foster a collaborative approach to the teaching of civil liberties at the Law School and College. To learn more about the Dunn Civil Liberties Program, click here.

Kristen Waggoner attended law school at Regent University Law School. After which, she clerked with Washington Supreme Court Justice Richard B. Sanders and interning with U.S. Rep. Linda Smith, Waggoner joined Ellis, Li & McKinstry, a Seattle law firm, where she became a partner in 2004. Now, she is the Senior Vice President of Legal Services and Senior Counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a legal organization that advocates for people?s right to live out their faith through efforts in strategy, training, funding, and litigation. Since she assumed this role, ADF has prevailed as lead counsel in eight U.S. Supreme Court victories, including Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which she argued at the Supreme Court and won. She continues as lead counsel in Arlene?s Flowers v. State of Washington, which the Supreme Court remanded to the lower courts.