Caroline Cohn

Staff Attorney

Caroline Cohn is a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) focusing on consumer protection to stop abusive practices perpetrated against justice-involved people and their loved ones. These harmful practices include government imposition of unaffordable fines and fees; criminal background screening practices that impede access to jobs, housing, and financial services; and predatory profiteering by private companies that impose unfair charges on incarcerated people and their loved ones, such as charges for telecommunications, commissary, and money-transfer services. Caroline’s advocacy on these issues includes report-writing, policy advocacy on state and federal bills, advocacy before state and federal agencies, and litigation. Previously, Caroline was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at NCLC, sponsored by Nike, Inc. 

She is a co-author of The High Cost of a Fresh Start: A State-by-State Analysis of Court Debt as a Bar to Record Clearing and Zombie Records: How Sealed or Expunged Court Records in Tenant & Employment Screening Reports May Illegally Cost People Jobs & Housing and she is a contributing author of NCLC’s Collection Actions manual. 

Before joining NCLC, Caroline served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Carolyn McHugh of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and to the Honorable Judge Carol B. Amon of the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of New York.

Education: 

J.D. Stanford Law School

B.A. University of Pennsylvania