The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is home to experts on virtually every aspect of public policy related to information technology and the Internet. CDT experts are routinely called to testify before Congress; offer quotes to major news outlets; and provide expert commentary for television and radio broadcasts around the world. CDT's experts can be contacted directly by email (below).

Reporters can coordinate interviews with any of CDT's experts through CDT's Director of Communications, Brock N. Meeks, who can be reached by e-mail at brock@cdt.org or by phone at (202) 637-9800 x114.

• Leslie Harris, President and CEO (lharris@cdt.org): Harris joined CDT in 2005, bringing with her more than 20 years of experience as a civil liberties lawyer and advocate. Her areas of expertise include free expression, privacy, and intellectual property law. Harris worked closely on several key technology measures, including the landmark "E-Rate" amendment to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") and the 2002 Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act, (TEACH) which updated copyright law for digital distance learning. She also was a leader against efforts in Congress to adopt Internet censorship laws including the Communications Decency Act.
• Jerry Berman, Chairman of the Board (jberman@cdt.org): A veteran of nearly 30 years of technology policy debates, Berman is conversant on virtually all of the key legal issues surrounding Internet technology. Berman is a nationally recognized figure in the battle against online censorship, having coordinated legal challenges against both the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act. Berman is also an expert on national security and civil liberties issues. In 1978, while working as chief legislative counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, he helped to develop and enact the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). He also led the effort to enact the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. Berman founded CDT in 1994 in response to the mounting policy challenges facing the open, democratic Internet.
• Jim Dempsey, Policy Director (jdempsey@cdt.org): Dempsey is a leading voice on the privacy and civil liberties issues associated with wiretapping, domestic spying and other national security issues. A former assistant counsel for the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Dempsey is among the nation's most oft-quoted sources on the PATRIOT Act and related measures. Dempsey also heads CDT's international project, the Global Internet Policy Initiative.
• Ari Schwartz, Deputy Director (ari@cdt.org): Schwartz has emerged as one of the most sought-after experts on emerging concerns related to consumer privacy on the Internet. A leading advocate in the effort to enact federal privacy legislation, Schwartz's expertise includes the technological threats to consumer privacy and the protections that must be established in response to those threats. Schwartz is also an expert on spyware, leading CDT's anti-spyware efforts and coordinating the activities of the Anti-Spyware Coalition, which includes academics, public interest advocates and the world's largest anti-spyware companies. Schwartz has also worked extensively to improve citizens' online access to government services and information.
• John Morris, Director, Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project (jmorris@cdt.org): Morris was the lead counsel in the ACLU v. Reno case, in which the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and paved the way for an Internet free of stifling censorship. He is one of the leading experts on Internet free speech issues, and has argued against state and federal laws intended to censor the Internet. Morris also led CDT's efforts to protect the right of political bloggers to use the Internet free of government intrusion. As director of the Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project, Morris leads CDT's efforts to ensure that Internet standards preserve the free, open nature of the Internet and do not harm civil values such as privacy.
• Gregory Nojeim, Director, Project on Freedom, Security & Technology (gnojeim@cdt.org): Nojeim has substantial expertise on the application of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and on the civil liberties protections it affords. Other areas of his expertise include governmental data mining, the PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the privacy implications of aviation security measures. Prior to joining CDT in May 2007, Nojeim was with the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union for 12 years. He frequently testified before congressional committees and commissions on anti-terrorism legislation and aviation security legislation, and about counter-terrorism proposals following the September 11 attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing, the use of secret evidence in immigration proceedings, driver’s license privacy, aviation security profiling and intrusive body-scan technologies and the threat to civil liberties posed by national ID cards.
• Deven McGraw, Director, CDT Health Privacy Project (deven@cdt.org): McGraw directs the Health Privacy Project, which became a project of CDT in 2008 and which focuses on developing and promoting workable privacy and security solutions for personal health information online. McGraw is an established leader in health policy and health information privacy, and came to CDT from the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she served as Chief Operating Officer and headed its work on health information technology. She has been active in the American Health Information Community, the federal advisory body charged with making recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services on standards and policies to advance a nationwide health information network, and has co-chaired that body's Confidentiality, Privacy and Security workgroup. She also has served on the Policy Steering Committee of the eHealth Initiative.
• David Sohn, Staff Counsel (dsohn@cdt.org): Sohn leads CDT's efforts on intellectual property and copyright in the digital age. He has authored several papers that seek to strike a balance between protecting intellectual property and ensuring that ordinary individuals have access to exciting new communications technologies. He offers a unique perspective on the proposed "broadcast flag" regime and on the Supreme Court's landmark decision in the MGM v. Grokster case over Internet file sharing. David has also led CDT's work on data-breach legislation and is an expert on spam and spyware measures, dating from his days as counsel for Sen. Ron Wyden.