Religious Freedom Clinic

Josh is the Director of Harvard Law School’s Religious Freedom Clinic, a pro bono program that gives students a hands-on, supervised experience representing a diverse group of clients in First Amendment and religious freedom cases. Before entering clinical teaching, Josh clerked for the Honorable Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the Honorable Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In addition to serving as a staff attorney in the clinic’s inaugural semester in 2020, he was previously a trial litigator at Munger, Tolles & Olson and an appellate litigator at Horvitz & Levy, where he specialized in representing individual and organizational clients in both commercial and civil rights cases, with particular expertise in First Amendment and religious freedom issues. Josh earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Brigham Young University and graduated first in his class from UCLA School of Law.

Kelsey Flores is a clinical instructor for the Religious Freedom Clinic. Before joining the clinic team, Kelsey worked as a lawyer on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution where she focused on religious freedom matters. She also previously worked in religious freedom litigation at First Liberty Institute.

Kelsey received her J.D. from SMU Dedman School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the SMU Law Review. She received her B.A. from Brigham Young University.

Parker is a fellow at the Religious Freedom Clinic, where he guides teams of students representing clients in First Amendment and statutory religious liberty cases. His research focuses on the relationship between legal texts and judicial values, especially the influence of rule structures on interpretive methods. Before joining the clinic, Parker clerked for the Honorable David J. Porter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and, as an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, litigated First Amendment cases in the Supreme Court of the United States and federal district and appellate courts. Parker received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He holds an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, where he studied legal philosophy, and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Fordham University, where he studied mathematics, economics, and philosophy in the university’s honors program.

Matt is a Clinical Instructional Fellow for Harvard Law School’s Religious Freedom Clinic. Before joining, Matthew clerked for the Honorable Alice M. Batchelder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Honorable Michael J. Truncale of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Prior to his clerkships, he was the Sudreau Global Justice Fellow in Kampala, Uganda, where he worked with pretrial detainees and helped implement public defender and plea bargaining programs in the Ugandan legal system. Matthew received his J.D. from Pepperdine School of Law, where he served as a Literary Citation Editor on the Pepperdine Law Review, a teaching assistant in Legal Research & Writing, and President of the Christian Legal Society.  He also received Order of the Barristers in Appellate Advocacy for his work on the moot court team, and he participated in the Anti-Human Trafficking Clinic and the Domestic Violence Clinic.  He received his B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from Pepperdine University.

As program coordinator, Alex assists in managing the administration of the Religious Freedom Clinic, performs research in support of its cases, coordinates clinic activities and clinic-sponsored events, and provides administrative support to clinic staff and students.

Alex grew up in Chicago and graduated from the University of Dallas in 2021 with a degree in Politics. Before joining the clinic, he taught middle school history at a classical academy in the Dallas area. Alex is thrilled to be a part of the clinic team.