People

President and Director

William A. Jacobson

William A. Jacobson is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School. He is a 1981 graduate of Hamilton College and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the Cornell law faculty in 2007, Professor Jacobson practiced law in New York City (1985-1993) and Providence, Rhode Island (1994-2006). A more complete listing of Professor Jacobson’s professional background is available at the Cornell Law School website.

Professor Jacobson was the founder of Legal Insurrection website in 2008.

Director and Treasurer

Martha Wallick

Martha Wallick has been active in the Rhode Island community for decades, including serving at various times as President, Secretary and Chair of the Barrington Public Schools PTO, a Board member of the Barrington Education Foundation, and the Barrington Board of Canvassers. She was a 2016 Rhode Island Elector, and is active in state politics, and worked at the 2016 Republican National Convention as the RI Delegation Aide.

Director and Secretary

Lisa Daft

Lisa Daft is a lifelong RI resident who is an active volunteer in the Barrington RI Community. She received her DMD degree from Temple University School of Dentistry and is a full time practicing dentist. She has served in several  leadership and fundraising roles in the Barrington Public Schools and has served as a member of the Barrington Committee on Appropriations.  Currently,  she  is the Chairwoman of the Barrington Republican Town Committee and is  a member of the advisory board for the East Providence High School Dental Assisting Program.

Operations and Editorial Director
Managing Editor,
Criticalrace.org

Kemberlee Kaye

Kemberlee Kaye is a graduate of Texas A&M University and has a background working in immigration law, and as a grassroots organizer, digital media strategist, campaign lackey, and muckraker. Over the years Kemberlee has worked with FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, and Senate re-election campaigns, among others. Kemberlee is the Senior Contributing Editor of Legal Insurrection website, where she has worked since 2014. She also serves as the Managing Editor for CriticalRace.org, a research project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation.

Kemberlee, her daughter, and her son live in Texas.

Chief Counsel

Maureen Riordan

Maureen Riordan obtained her law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. Ms Riordan is an experienced litigator after having served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office for fifteen years litigating felony matters.

Ms. Riordan spent 21 years as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice in Washington D.C. specializing in voting rights litigation and served as Senior Counsel to the Attorney General for Civil Rights in both the first and second Trump Administrations. Ms. Riordan has also served as an adjunct professor teaching criminal procedure in the Forensic Science Masters program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.

Ms. Riordan is a mom to three grown children and lives with her husband outside of Richmond, Virginia.

Senior Researcher / Attorney

Amanda B. Stulman

Amanda B. Stulman is a 1995 graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. She has represented a federal agency, Fortune 500 companies, police and firefighter unions, and other organizations. Amanda was the founder of the USA branch of Keep Prisons Single Sex and has been an advocate for free speech, single sex spaces and parental rights. She lives with her husband in the Catskill Mountains.

Lead Investigator

Amy Noto

Amy Noto is a retired Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where she had 23 years experience investigating Counterterrorism, Violent Crimes, Violent Crimes Against Children, and Human Intelligence, and held Top Secret/SCI clearance. Prior to joining the FBI, she was an Intelligence Analyst for the Drug Enforcement Administration. She earned a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Clark University. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children.

Attorney, Equal Protection Project

Robert Fox

Robert J. Fox is a former Deputy Attorney General for the State of Indiana, where he had the privilege of serving Hoosiers. He earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from DePaul University and his law degree from Indiana University School of Law. In addition to his legal career, Robert has contributed to various political campaigns, including the successful U.S. Senate campaign of Mike Braun. He lives in the suburbs of Indianapolis with his wife and daughter.

Administrative and Development Coordinator

Kristee Masters

Kristee graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Human Resources. She worked for several years in Oil & Gas, specializing in Human Resources for the offshore drilling sector. Kristee has worked for Pride International, Ensco PLC and Seadrill with a focus on International Employment. She is a devout Texan and believes queso should be a main food group. Kristee and her husband live happily in small town Texas.

Research Scholar

Nora Clinton

Nora D. Clinton was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds a PhD in Classics and has published extensively on ancient documents on stone. In 2020, she authored the popular memoir Quarantine Reflections Across Two Worlds. Nora is a co-founder of two partner charities dedicated to academic cooperation and American values. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and son.

Of Counsel,
Equal Protection Project

Ameer Benno

Ameer Benno is a civil rights and appellate attorney with the law firm of Benno & Associates P.C. in New York City. He received his bachelor’s degree with honors from Johns Hopkins University, and his law degree from Cornell Law School. Mr. Benno appears frequently on national television and radio news media to give legal analysis and commentary, and he regularly lectures on topics having to do with the U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional law, appellate advocacy and trial practice. He lives with his wife and three daughters on Long Island.

Senior Research Fellow,
Equal Protection Project

Mark J. Perry

Mark J. Perry is a 1993 graduate of the Ph.D. program in economics at George Mason University and he received an MBA in finance from the University of Minnesota in 1987. He taught economics at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan for 25 years before retiring from teaching in 2021. For 12 of those years, Mark held a joint appointment as a scholar at The American Enterprise Institute, where he was the creator and editor of the popular Carpe Diem blog. In recent years, Mark has worked tirelessly to challenge the widespread illegal sex and race discrimination in higher education by filing more than 900 federal civil rights complaints with the Office for Civil Rights.  He lives with his wife in a suburb of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Senior Research Fellow

Adam Kissel

Adam Kissel, a visiting fellow for higher education reform at The Heritage Foundation, also serves on several university and nonprofit boards, including the West Virginia Professional Charter School Board and the West Virginia Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.