Kaitlyn Filip is a 5th year JD-PhD student in Rhetoric and Public Culture. She has a BA in English, Political Science, and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan and an MA in English from Brandeis University. Her current research focuses on how discourses around public crises and scandal shape policy-making and legal advocacy in the fields of corporate and criminal law. She has interned with Corporate Accountability Lab and worked as an intern and network fellow with the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice.