about adf action
Our Mission
ADF Action is an alliance-building organization that works to advance every person’s God-given right to live and speak the truth. We join with like-minded thought-leaders and policy organizations to shape law and culture and champion the fundamental freedoms that promote human flourishing and affirm the dignity of every person.
Core Commitments
In conjunction with Alliance Defending Freedom, and its team of seasoned constitutional attorneys, we are guided by the following core commitments:
All Can Speak Freely
Securing freedom of speech for all people.
Religious Freedom Prevails
Restoring religious freedom as a fundamental right.
Life is Safeguarded
Guaranteeing the right to life from conception to natural death.
Parental Rights are Guaranteed
Guaranteeing the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children.
Marriage & Family are Protected
Ensuring the law respects God’s created order for marriage, the family, and human sexuality.
ADF Action Leadership
Ryan Bangert
Ryan Bangert serves as Executive Director of ADF Action where he leads ADF Action’s government relations efforts. He also serves as Senior Vice President and Special Counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom.
Bangert previously served as Deputy First Assistant Attorney General in the Texas Attorney General’s office and Deputy for Civil Litigation in the Missouri Attorney General’s office. He was also a trial partner at Baker Botts L.L.P. Bangert earned his J.D. from Southern Methodist University, where he was a Hatton Sumner’s scholar and graduated first in his class.
Bangert is responsible for driving the execution of ADF Action’s mission to enact policies that protect freedom of speech and religious liberty, combat government censorship, promote flourishing families and a culture of life, and defend women and children from dangerous gender ideology.
Zack Pruitt
Zack Pruitt serves as Deputy Executive Director of ADF Action where he helps oversee the state government relations team and represents ADF Action to government officials and coalition leaders. Pruitt also serves as senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom.
Prior to his work at ADF Action, Pruitt served as senior policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity and director of public policy for the Family Action Council of Tennessee. Before that, he was a Charles Koch Institute Research Fellow at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and managed a state Senate campaign in Missouri.
Pruitt earned his Juris Doctor with a certificate in International and Comparative Law from St. Louis University School of Law. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is member of the state bar in Tennessee and the District of Columbia and is also admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court.
