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KRISTINE KIPPINS Center for Reproductive Rights
Kristine Kippins is a federal policy counsel with the Center for Reproductive Rights. She
is responsible for developing and implementing federal strategies to ensure protection
for reproductive rights and access to reproductive health care in the U.S. She does so by
conducting legal and policy analyses and by working with coalition partners, members
of Congress, and the Administration. Before joining the Center, she was the director of
external affairs at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. She acted as
the primary liaison to Capitol Hill, the Administration, and coalition partners on voting
rights, immigration, and indigent defense, and also managed the organization’s judicial
nominations project. She graduated from the William and Mary School of Law and earned
her B.S. in economics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

MICHAEL OSWALT Northern Illinois University
Professor Michael M. Oswalt joined the NIU College of Law faculty in fall 2013 and
teaches primarily in the areas of labor and employment. His research focuses on the
relationship between law and activism, particularly how legal and other regimes transform
the possibilities for engagement in civic and institutional arenas, including the workplace.
His work has appeared in the UC Irvine Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review (with
Catherine Fisk), the Duke Law Journal, and the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies. His
most recent article, Improvisational Unionism, focuses on strikes in the retail and fast food
industries and will be published in the California Law Review. Oswalt graduated from
Haverford College and has degrees in law and theology from Duke University. At Duke Law
he was a member of the Duke Law Journal and served as notes editor for the Duke Journal
of Gender Law and Policy. After law school he clerked on the United States Second Circuit
Court of Appeals for Judge (now Justice) Sonia Sotomayor. Most recently Oswalt was a law
fellow for the Service Employees International Union where he provided counsel to a variety
of low-wage worker organizing campaigns.

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