Cynthia Soohoo (she/her) 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 federal and state courts. Prior to joining the CUNY faculty, she 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. Before that she practiced law at Covington & Burling (formerly Howard, Darby & Levin) for six years and clerked for the Hon. Gerard L. Goettel, U.S.D.J., SDNY.
Professor Soohoo is a graduate of Williams College (BA) and the University of Pennsylvania (JD). She has published numerous articles and reports on access to abortion, forced sterilization and criminalization of reproductive choices and is co-editor of the book, Bringing Human Rights Home. She is licensed to practice in New York.