Who We Are
Advisory Board
Russ Feingold
As a lawmaker, diplomat, attorney, and professor, Russ Feingold has devoted his career to protecting the Constitution’s bedrock guarantees. Serving nearly two decades in the United States Senate, Feingold was the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act, cosponsored the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold Act), the most important campaign finance reform in decades, and was one of nine senators to vote against the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. He sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee and chaired its Sub-committee on the Constitution.
Feingold has also served as a U.S. special envoy and taught at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and Marquette Law Schools. He was President of the American Constitution Society and is Chair of the Global Steering Committee of the Campaign for Nature. He is a recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Feingold has written a New York Times bestseller, While America Sleeps: a Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era, and authored with attorney Peter Prindiville, The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It.
Kelsi B. Corkran
Kelsi Brown Corkran is the Supreme Court Director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection and a Senior Lecturer at Georgetown Law. Kelsi joined ICAP in 2021 to expand its Supreme Court practice in response to the growing need for dedicated public interest litigators with specialized expertise in defending constitutional rights before the nation’s highest court.
Kelsi has served as lead counsel in numerous civil rights merits cases before the Supreme Court. She presented oral argument before the Court in Trump v. CASA on behalf of the immigration advocacy groups challenging President Trump’s Executive Order eliminating birthright citizenship; Grants Pass v. Johnson, an Eighth Amendment challenge to the criminalization of homelessness; Acheson Hotels v. Laufer, a disability discrimination case under the Americans with Disabilities Act; Torres v. Madrid, involving a Fourth Amendment seizure claim by a police shooting victim; and City of Hays v. Vogt, addressing the scope of the Fifth Amendment’s Self-Incrimination Clause. She has also argued over 30 cases in the courts of appeals, including 12 of the 13 U.S. Courts of Appeals and the en banc Sixth and Ninth Circuits.
Immediately prior to joining ICAP, Kelsi was the Head of the Supreme Court Practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. She previously served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court and Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Miriam E. (Mimi) Rocah
Miriam E. Rocah (Mimi) was elected as District Attorney of Westchester County, New York in November 2020 through a grassroots campaign against an incumbent. During her four years as DA, she modernized the DA’s Office, aggressively pursued gun and violent crime, developed ways to better serve crime victims, and instituted sensible criminal justice reforms. Prior to becoming DA, Mimi served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) for nearly 17 years from 2001-2017 rising to become Chief of the White Plains Criminal Division.
She is currently writing a book titled Justice Still Stands: Trump’s Attack on the Rule of Law and the Heroes Fighting Back, to be published by HarperCollins in January 2027. She was a Legal Analyst with MSNBC/NBC News from 2017-19 and is now a frequent commentator on CNN, MS NOW, and numerous podcasts.
Mimi is a 1997 graduate from New York University School of Law and a 1992 graduate from Harvard University. She is currently an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches legal ethics and classes about the modern prosecutor.
Rebecca Slaughter
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter served as a Federal Trade Commissioner from 2018 to 2025, including as Acting Chairwoman in 2021. She was first appointed by President Trump and later reappointed by President Biden, confirmed unanimously by the Senate both times. At the FTC, she voted to block mergers that would have raised prices for grocery shoppers and patients, pushed the agency to treat data collection as a question of power rather than disclosure, and dissented when she believed the Commission asked too little of large firms. Her work involved economy-spanning industries, including healthcare, consumer technology, retail, and agriculture.
Before her confirmation to the FTC, she spent nearly a decade working for Senator Chuck Schumer, rising from Judiciary Committee counsel to Chief Counsel, a role she held when he became Democratic Leader. Her portfolio included antitrust, privacy, IP, telecommunications, labor, and national security. She has testified before Congress more than a dozen times and has led U.S. delegations to the G7 privacy and competition agencies, the Global Privacy Assembly, and the OECD. She has written extensively on issues including algorithmic decision making, the scope of federal merger law, the value of independence in government, and the challenges facing working parents.
When President Trump removed her from the FTC without cause, she sued for reinstatement. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against her in Trump v. Slaughter (2026), overturning a 91-year unanimous precedent and upending the independence of regulatory institutions in the U.S. government. She is now a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and Public Trust at NYU Law, and also advises, writes, and speaks on building free and fair markets, protecting consumers, and defending the rule of law and the independence of government institutions. She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.
Zephyr Teachout
Zephyr Teachout is a Professor at Law at Fordham Law School where she focuses on the intersection of corporate power and political power. She teaches corporations, election law, antitrust, and prosecuting white collar crime. Her most recent book, Break 'em Up (2020), makes a case for reimagining the relationship between democracy and antimonopoly law. Her prior book, Corruption in America (2014), argued that the American constitutional system has an embedded anti-corruption principle that has been discarded by the modern Court.
Her public writings have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, New York Review of Books, Washington Post, The Nation and The New Republic. In 2021, she took a leave to work as Special Advisor and Senior Counsel for Economic Justice at the New York Attorney General's Office. Before Law School, Zephyr Teachout had a career as a digital consultant and nonprofit entrepreneur, and represented clients on death row in North Carolina. She was a Law Clerk to then-Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Maya Wiley
Maya Wiley is the president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund. A nationally respected civil rights attorney, she has been a litigator and a program creator and policy advocate in philanthropy, non-profits, government, and higher education. Prior to taking the helm of the Leadership Conference, Ms. Wiley ran for Mayor in 2021, garnering the second highest number of first choice votes in a rank choice vote election. In 2014, she became the first Black woman to be Counsel to a New York City Mayor, Bill deBlasio where she worked to protect and expand civil rights, Minority and Women-Owned Business contracts and broadband access.
Wiley became a Senior Vice President for Social Justice at the New School University, where she also founded the Digital Equity Laboratory. While there, she chaired the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). As chair, she led the release of the “hold” on proceedings against Daniel Pantaleo whose illegal chokehold killed Eric Garner, and also Co-Chaired the Mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group that authored two major reports on integrating New York City public schools. Wiley has been a litigator at the ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc, and the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. She helped create a criminal justice program for a major foundation in South Africa. Wiley co-founded and led a national policy advocacy organization, the Center for Social Inclusion, now a part of Race Forward, a national policy strategy organization working to end structural racism.
Wiley has received numerous awards, and has been a public voice for rights, justice and democracy, through written opinion editorials and as a former legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Wiley is the author of the memoir, “Remember You Are A Wiley.”
Team
Brendan Ballou
Brendan Ballou is CEO of the Public Integrity Project. He is a former federal prosecutor, and for two years prosecuted rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He previously served as special counsel for private equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. He is the author of Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America, and When Companies Run the Courts: Forced Arbitration and America’s Secret Justice System. He frequently appears on CNN and MSNBC, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Politico, The Nation, and elsewhere.
Andie Dobson-Forsee
Andie Dobson-Forsee is counsel at the Public Integrity Project. Before joining the project, Andie litigated at a boutique civil rights firm where she represented employees, whistleblowers, and consumers. Previously, she supported civilian survivors of drone strikes at the nonprofit Reprieve. She also clerked for Judge Duane Benton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Andie received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she organized student volunteers as co-president of the HLS Immigration Project and co-director of the International Refugee Assistance Project. She earned a B.A. in Political Science and Comparative Literature from Northwestern University.
Emily Gilman
Emily Gilman is counsel at the Public Integrity Project. Prior to joining the Project, Emily worked with Protect Democracy on a successful trial-court challenge to the Trump Administration’s termination of NIH grants and on the subsequent appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States. Before that, Emily served as senior litigation counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She also spent more than ten years in private practice, where she litigated cases at all levels of state and federal courts. Emily holds a JD, cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School and a BA in History, with Honors, from the University of Chicago. While in law school, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law.
Dan Matzkin
Dan Matzkin is senior counsel at the Public Integrity Project. Previously, Dan spent more than a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, where he rose to Chief of the Appellate Division. In that role, he prepared and supervised hundreds of briefs and presented numerous oral arguments in complex civil and criminal appeals before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Dan also served as a law clerk on the Eleventh Circuit, litigated complex civil cases at a large international law firm and prominent appellate boutique, and taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law.
Dan holds a JD from the University of Michigan Law School and a BA from Wesleyan University.
Sam Ward-Packard
Sam Ward-Packard is counsel at the Public Integrity Project. Before joining the Project, Sam served as assistant attorney general at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, where he litigated cases to protect voters, the environment, taxpayers, and domestic violence survivors. He previously worked at a leading voting rights and election law firm, where he litigated dozens of cases in state and federal courts around the country. He began his career clerking for Judge Diane Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Sam holds a JD from Stanford Law School, an MA in Arabic from Middlebury College, and a BA from Yale University. While in law school, he served as the 73rd president of the Stanford Law Review, and won best team and best oralist in the Kirkwood Moot Court. As an undergraduate, he won the 2013 U.S. Universities Debating Championship and was twice the top-ranked individual debater in the United States.