Faith is an associate in the firm’s litigation practice, where she advises clients on a range of appellate and other litigation matters in both federal and state courts.

Prior to joining Akin, Faith served in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department where she counseled policymakers on issues concerning international humanitarian law, the International Court of Justice, and international organizations. She also advised the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) on management, licensing, policy, and regulatory compliance issues related to export controls, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and the Arms Export Control Act (AECA). She worked closely with senior officials in the interagency including at the Departments of Defense and Justice. Faith served as the lead Department attorney on issues related to private military and security companies and represented the United States Government at the United Nations in related negotiations, leading the delegation from DC. She also served as counsel on multiple other delegations to multilateral meetings in New York, Geneva, and Rome and advised U.S. Missions to multilateral agencies and the United Nations. She received multiple awards in recognition of her service and legal diplomacy.

Previously, Faith clerked for The Honorable Goodwin H. Liu of the Supreme Court of California and The Honorable William A. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also clerked on the Hopi Appellate Court, the highest court of the Hopi Tribe.

Faith received her J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as a staffer for the Chicago Journal of International Law, president of the Human Rights Law Society, co-director of public interest and government programming for the Law Women’s Caucus, member of the International Law Society, and elected member of the Pro Bono Board. Faith was a Douglass Fellow at the Human Trafficking Institute, where she supported research and advocacy efforts in human trafficking law. She was also recognized as a Kirkland & Ellis scholar, a Rubenstein Merit Scholar, and as a Salzburg Cutler Fellow in international law. She was awarded the 2020 Pro Bono Award of Excellence (recognizing her completion of over 880 hours of pro bono during law school), the James C. Hormel Public Service Award, the 2L Public Service Award, and the Ernst Freund Fellowship in Law and Philosophy. She received her B.A. in political science, with a focus on human rights, from the University of Chicago where she was recognized as a student marshal.

During law school, Faith served as a research assistant in areas related to national security law and as a teaching assistant for the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

She began her legal career as an immigration paralegal at a firm in Minneapolis, MN and previously worked in local elections programming in Wisconsin and as a research associate for NORC at the University of Chicago.