Maggie McKinley received her JD from Stanford Law School and her BA in linguistic anthropology from UCLA. During her fellowship, she continued work on a two-phase, multi-disciplinary study of federal lobbyists specializing in tax legislation. The first phase included gathering interview and ethnographic data documenting the everyday practices and ideologies of federal tax lobbyists in DC. The second phase applied the findings from phase one to analyze trends within public disclosure databases and the tax code.