M.K. Swartsfager
Law Student, Duquesne University, Kline School of Law
2024
M.K. Swartsfager is pursuing a career as a public interest attorney. He has studied family law, urban development, criminal law and immigration law while serving clients in landlord tenant matters, protection from abuse petitions, juvenile delinquency defense, and petitions for naturalization. M.K enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 2009 and commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2017. He studied International Relations and Mandarin language, and served within Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Force Space Command, 1st Marine Air Wing, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force, and the 4th Marine Division. He worked in the Criminal Divisions of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California and the Western District of Pennsylvania, before becoming a certified legal intern with Neighborhood Legal Services, Allegheny County Office of Conflict Counsel, and Jewish Family and Community Services. M.K. resides with his family in Green Tree, Pennsylvania.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
