The Right to Read

Daniela del Rosario Wertheimer is the Cornell First Amendment Clinic’s Stanton Fellow. She is a member of the D.C. Bar and has research interests and practice experience in the First and Fourth Amendments, government transparency, and civil liberties and civil rights. Prior to joining Cornell, Daniela was the Jack Nelson-Dow Jones Fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. In that role, she focused primarily on federal and state open records and open meetings matters through litigation, advocacy, and amicus efforts.

Daniela graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she was awarded the Kraw Law Group Scholarship for her work on labor and employment issues and academic achievement. She was also an articles editor at the California Law Review, a research assistant, and a student in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. Before law school, Daniela worked at the ACLU, where she fostered her nascent interest in First Amendment issues. Daniela was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow at Swarthmore College, from which she graduated in 2017 with a degree in Sociology and Anthropology.

Sherry Scheline’s greatest achievement is being a mother to her two adopted children, Jasmine and Aiyanna. A graduate of Northwest University with a degree in Behavioral Science, she became an “accidental librarian” in 2017 when a new library district was formed. As director of a library with one of Idaho’s highest per-square-foot usage rates, Sherry specializes in doing a lot with a little and wearing multiple hats as program director, teacher, janitor, and tech supervisor while running daily after-school programs and a full-day summer camp called Camp Library. She believes the library is the most essential part of any community, serving as an anchor and great equalizer.

Sherry’s innovative work has earned national recognition, including ARSL Innovator of the Year (2023), Idaho Out-of-School Network After-School Champion, and Library Journal’s prestigious Movers & Shakers award (2025). She is a sought-after speaker who has presented at major conferences including ARSL, PLA, and ALA, and she delivered the keynote at ALA Lib Learn X. Sherry’s advocacy extends beyond the library world: She has addressed the Idaho State Legislature to oppose harmful library legislation, spoken on censorship at Emory and Henry University, and presented at educational summits. Her work has been featured on NPR’s Code Switch with B.A. Parker.

As Vice President of the Idaho Digital Consortium — the largest consortium of small and rural libraries — Sherry helped develop reciprocal lending agreements that connect all of Idaho to digital library services. She continues to advocate for equity in digital access, recently speaking at ALA’s eBook Summit on equity in eBook sales.

Kelly L. McNamee is a partner in Foley Hoag’s First Amendment and Media practice. Kelly’s practice focuses on defending media and entertainment organizations from newsgathering and publication-related claims, including bet-the-company defamation, invasion of privacy, and copyright infringement matters. She also represents media clients in litigation involving applications for access to civil and criminal court proceedings and records, including Freedom of Information Law cases in both federal and state courts.

In addition to her work representing media organizations, Kelly is well versed in energy regulatory matters in the Northeast. She has represented national and international corporations that own and operate electric-generating facilities in comprehensive regulatory proceedings before the New York Public Service Commission and the Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission.