Cynthia Soohoo

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Cynthia Soohoo (@SoohooCindy) is a Professor of Law and co-directs the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law School. She has worked on sexual and reproductive health issues and U.S. human rights compliance with international legal obligations before U.N. human rights bodies, the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, and in domestic courts.  Prior to joining the CUNY faculty, Professor Soohoo served as Director of the U.S. Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights.  From 2001-2007, Professor Soohoo ran the U.S. Human Rights Program at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute and was a supervising attorney for Columbia’s Human Rights Clinic.  Professor Soohoo practiced law at Covington & Burling (formerly Howard, Darby & Levin) for six years, where she was co-counsel in the landmark Alien Tort Statute case, Doe v. Karadzic. She clerked for the Hon. Gerard L. Goettel, U.S.D.J., SDNY and is a former NYC Urban Fellow. Professor Soohoo has published multiple scholarly articles on access to abortion, forced sterilization and criminalization of reproductive choices and is co-editor of the book, Bringing Human Rights Home. Cynthia is also on LinkedIn.