Biography                                                            

Mr. Kreis comes to the University of Georgia from Charlottesville, Virginia where he earned his law degree from Washington and Lee University and completed advanced coursework in public law at the University of Virginia. 

While at Washington and Lee, Mr. Kreis served as a research assistant to nationally recognized First Amendment scholar Rodney A. Smolla and leading expert on marriage equality and religious liberty, Robin Fretwell Wilson.  With Professor Wilson and a nationwide cohort of legal academics, Mr. Kreis assisted in legislation drafting efforts for various states’ marriage equality initiatives, including the 2011 New York Marriage Equality Act.  At the University of Virginia, Mr. Kreis was a research specialist for civil rights leader and Professor of History, Julian Bond. 

He has been published in the University of South Carolina Law Review and regional newspapers including the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Virginia Pilot.

Mr. Kreis’ focus lies at the crossroads of law, politics, and public policy with a specialization in issues confronting sexual and racial minorities and civil liberties, generally.  During his tenure at the University of Georgia, he continues his LGBT rights advocacy while pursuing academic interests in critical legal theory, American political philosophy, the politics of Equal Protection law, and the influence of the judiciary in social movements.