Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is Director of the Conscience Project, a nonprofit organization advancing religious freedom and the rights of conscience through public education in the media and amicus support in key religious freedom cases.
A Stanford-educated lawyer, Andrea has dedicated her legal career to civil rights and appellate advocacy. She got her start in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, specializing in institutional reform and police misconduct and also handling enforcement of constitutional and federal civil rights laws in the appellate section. Before leading the Conscience Project, Andrea served as legal advisor to the Catholic Association, filing several amicus briefs with the federal courts of appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court. Andrea is a legal analyst for EWTN News and frequent contributor for the National Catholic Register. She has also written for the Washington Post, CNN en Español, the New York Post, RealClear, The Christian Post, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner and Crux.
