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Bryna Godar

Bryna Godar

Bryna Godar is a staff attorney at the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Before joining the Initiative, Godar clerked for Judge Jeffrey R. Howard on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.…

Gary Gordon

Gary Gordon

Gary Gordon is a Michigan attorney with extensive experience in election law, regulatory law, and litigation. Before entering private practice at Dykema, Gordon served as the Chief Deputy Attorney General for the State of Michigan. Gordon frequently speaks to groups…

Robert A. Graci

Robert A. Graci

Robert A. Graci is a Pennsylvania attorney and former appellate court judge. He served as an assistant district attorney and deputy and chief deputy attorney general before being appointed to and serving on Pennsylvania’s Superior Court, an intermediate appellate court.…

Bree Grossi Wilde

Bree Grossi Wilde

Bree Grossi Wilde is the Executive Director at the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Before joining the State Democracy Research Initiative, Grossi Wilde served as a career law clerk in the Western District of…

Beverly Martin

Beverly Martin

Judge Martin is a native of Macon, Georgia. She stepped down from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and serves as the Executive Director of NYU Law’s Center on Civil Justice. Prior to her time on the…

Joseph Sabino Mistick

Joseph Sabino Mistick

Joseph Sabino Mistick is an associate professor at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University and is the founder of the award-winning Urban Development Law Clinic, which he has operated since 1995. Mistick was executive secretary (deputy…

Miriam Seifter

Miriam Seifter

Miriam Seifter is a Professor of Law, and Rowe Faculty Fellow in Regulatory Law, and Co-Director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her research interests include federalism, administrative and constitutional law, and state…

Adam Sopko

Adam Sopko

Adam Sopko is a staff attorney at the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Before joining the Initiative, he clerked for Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Sopko attended Manhattan…

Chris Trebilcock

Chris Trebilcock

Chris Trebilcock is an attorney who represents clients in the Detroit, Michigan area, recognized by peers and selected to Rising Stars for 2008 – 2009, 2011 – 2014. Trebilcock litigates labor and employment disputes in federal and state courts and…

Rex VanMiddlesworth

Rex VanMiddlesworth

Rex VanMiddlesworth is a 2023 Fellow in the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative and the Senior Democracy Editor for the Harvard Social Impact Review, VanMiddlesworth’s focus is on addressing threats to American democracy. Prior to becoming an ALI Fellow, he was…