Ginger Quintero-McCall

Ginger Quintero-McCall is a partner and co-founder of the Free Information Group (https://freeinformationgroup.com), a public interest law firm focused on affordable and accessible Freedom of Information Act litigation. She 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.  Quintero-McCall also served as Oregon’s first Public Records Advocate, where she provided statewide training on public records laws and offered public records mediation services to requesters and government employees. 

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 and legal internship program. Quintero-McCall has twice served on the FOIA Federal Advisory Committee and has 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, the Oregonian, and the Bulwark; and has co-authored several friend-of-the-court briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Quintero-McCall received her law degree from Cornell Law School and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh.