About
Jeremy Tedesco is an attorney who works as the senior counsel and senior vice president of corporate engagement at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)—an anti-LGBTQ hate group—where he leads the organization’s efforts to “combat corporate cancel culture.” In his role at ADF, he oversaw the recent launch of the Viewpoint Diversity Business Index, a tool developed by ADF and Inspire Investing, a Christian right-wing, anti-ESG investment firm, to push back against “woke capitalism.” In 2022, The Heritage Foundation presented ADF with a $100,000 Innovation Prize for developing the tool.
Tedesco worked on the legal team that successfully argued the anti-LGBTQ case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission before the Supreme Court, which in 2018 ruled in favor of the bakery that had refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. He serves on the board of the Evangelical Christian group Ratio Christi and holds a law degree from Regent University, the private Christian college founded by televangelist Pat Robertson in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Actions
- Launched “Good for Business Coalition Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation” with Andrew V. Abela, founding dean of the Busch School of Business and professor of marketing at The Catholic University of America; Tracy Phillips, visiting assistant professor at the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America; President and CEO of Axos Bank Gregory Garrabrants; Strive Asset Management Co-Founder Anson Frericks (3/25/25)
- Signed the Good for Business Coalition’s “Statement of Principles on the Purpose of a Corporation” opposing ESG, DEI, and the “politicization of business” (3/25/25)
- Testified in Florida’s “House ‘weaponization’ subcommittee that probes the feds’ woke behavior targeting conservative groups” where he “gave several examples of major banks debanking groups they didn’t like at the behest of left-wing political causes or the Biden administration” (3/11/24)
- Co-authored an anti-ESG essay titled “The Moral Duties of Business” for the conservative blog Law & Liberty (2/8/23)
- Spoke on a panel titled “Fostering True Diversity in Non-Profit Organizations and Corporate America” hosted by South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis with Stephanie Holmes and Patrice Onwuka of the Independent Women’s Forum at the 2022 Fall National Meeting of the State Financial Officers Foundation (11/14/22)