“Ezekiel Adeyemi was twenty-six, a year out of law school, working out of a rented office with a leaking ceiling.

He took our case for nothing.

He worked twenty-hour days for three years.

He faced down threats, and intimidation, and people trying to get him disbarred, and he brought that contractor down — secured medical coverage for every family, and forced the government to rewrite its oversight laws.” Washburn’s eyes moved over the pews, then back to me.

“When powerful men try to buy the truth, this man builds a wall out of the law and holds it.

He is not a nobody, Miss Vandermeer.