Christopher Galiardo clerks for the Honorable Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He previously clerked for two other federal district court judges; managed Latin American trade law enforcement at the White House; and worked in various legal capacities for the Pentagon, State Department, and Senate Judiciary Committee. Before law school, he directed national recruitment strategy at Teach For America and completed a Fulbright Scholarship. He is a former Catholic seminarian and earned degrees at Dartmouth (A.B.), Harvard (M.P.P.), and Yale (J.D.). He will clerk for the Honorable Lawrence J. VanDyke of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit starting in 2023.