Kelsey Zorzi serves as Senior Counsel and Director of Advocacy for Global Religious Freedom with ADF International. She leads efforts to address and counter persecution of Christians and other religious minorities worldwide. Based in Washington, D.C., Zorzi engages with a multinational network of attorneys, government officials, and international institutions to challenge legal barriers and advance religious freedom as a cornerstone of the international human rights framework.

She has worked on several cases before supreme courts across the Middle East and Africa involving persecuted religious minorities. In 2018, she was elected president of the United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief. She currently serves on the Council of Experts for the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance, a coalition of more than forty governments collaborating on international religious freedom initiatives.

Zorzi earned her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, where she participated in the GW–Oxford International Human Rights Law Program. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and RealClearPolitics. She is admitted to the bar in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.