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Kaitlyn Schiraldi

Staff Attorney


Kaitlyn Schiraldi is Staff Attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Prior to joining NCLA, Kaitlyn worked at Mountain States Legal Foundation where she litigated to defend citizens from the government’s unwieldy power, filed amicus briefs, drafted comments on agency regulations, and was a frequent webinar panelist.

Kaitlyn graduated magna cum laude from Texas Tech University School of Law and holds an undergraduate degree, with honors, from The University of Texas at Austin.

Kaitlyn is licensed to practice law in Tennessee. She is one of four young leaders that head the Nashville Federalist Society’s Young Lawyers Committee—helping plan local events where the brightest legal minds come speak. She is also a member of the Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Council. In her downtime, you can find her spending time in the great outdoors with her husband and two dogs, or immersed in Nashville’s music scene.

Not licensed in Virginia; admitted to practice in Tennessee and select federal jurisdictions.

Controlling the Language: How Government Puppeteers the Minds of Millions

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi February 9, 2024
Blogs
George Orwell ominously warned “but if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” In a nation premised on the ultimate rebellion, the government would never police speech to conform to one narrative, would it? Orwell’s words were not predictors of free speech’s demise, were they?   Unfortunately, like metastatic cancer, the government has indeed been…
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The Self-Regulated Art Market Leaves Bureaucrats Concerned about Job Security

By: Kaitlyn Schiraldi June 19, 2023
Blogs
The Administrative State has nearly every aspect of American life under its thumb. Many Americans have developed Stockholm syndrome-like feelings toward the deep state, crediting clean rivers, uncontaminated food, and safe airline travel to the virtue-laden hearts of unelected bureaucrats with no constituents to answer to. But what if we escaped our captors? What if…
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