Cindy Cohn

Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000 to 2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director and General Counsel. Cohn first became involved with EFF in 1993, when EFF asked her to serve as the Outside Lead Attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the US export restrictions on cryptography. The National Law Journal named Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: “[I]f Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn.” She was also named in 2006 for “rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online.” In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2018 Forbes included her as one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech.