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Kevin Bell is a public records litigator who has led and supported investigations into environmental, public health, law enforcement, energy, and land use matters. He has counseled public health, law enforcement, and environmental whistleblowers, championed policy reforms in the administrative state, and worked with congressional investigators, Inspectors General, and the Office of Special Counsel on matters of public wrongdoing. 

He previously worked with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission where he was the agency's representative on the U.S. National Archives FOIA Advisory Committee, reviewed tens of thousands of pages of FOIA responses, and led trainings throughout the agency in FOIA compliance, in addition to serving as an ethics attorney.

Prior to his federal career, Kevin was a staff attorney with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an environmental, whistleblower defense, and advocacy organization. He managed an extensive FOIA docket, worked directly with whistleblowers to craft media and legal strategy, and served as contact for media and public appearances.

Kevin is a graduate of the Willamette University College of Liberal Arts and the New York University School of Law. His family owns a small toy and game store in Texas and he recently concluded a D&D game he has been running for eight years.

Ginger Quintero-McCall has worked as both a government public records attorney and an attorney for the requester community. She previously worked at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Communications Commission, and U.S. Department of Labor.  Ms. Quintero-McCall also served as Oregon’s first Public Records Advocate. 

Prior to her work in government, she was the Associate Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a public interest research center, where she directed the Center’s Open Government Program. Ms. Quintero-McCall has twice served on the FOIA Federal Advisory Committee, where she has led two subcommittees dedicated to researching and proposing improvements on the implementation of the FOIA. 

Ms. Quintero-McCall has also taught a course on the Law of Open Government at Georgetown University Law Center. She co-edited Litigation Under the Federal Government Laws 2010, has been published in the New York Times, and has co-authored several friend-of-the-court briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Quintero-McCall is a graduate of Cornell Law School. 

Ms. Quintero-McCall is an avid hiker and has scaled four Colorado 14ers, including  Mt. Elbert, the second highest peak in the continental U.S. She has traveled to all fifty states and five continents. She is also a published fiction author. She is also the photographer for all the landscape pictures on this website.