Cynthia Conti-Cook is the Director of Research & Policy at Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, where she leads work on digital public infrastructures, public sector procurement, and government’s evolving uses of digital technologies.

Previously, Cynthia was a tech fellow at the Ford Foundation’s Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice team, where she supported grantees’ capacity to respond to digital technologies and funders’ capacity to vet tech intended to serve the public. She founded the Cop Accountability Project at the Legal Aid Society where which led the release of a police misconduct database, impact litigation and advocacy in collaboration with a coalition that successfully repealed NYS police secrecy law 50A.

Cynthia has trained hundreds of criminal defense, civil rights attorneys, paralegals and investigators across the country. She has led putative class actions and over a hundred individual civil rights federal and state actions, including municipal liability claims. Cynthia has appeared on CNN, Michael Moore’s Rumble podcast, and MSNBC. Her op-eds have been published in the L.A. Times, Washington Post, she has published multiple law review articles and a chapter on battling trade secrets in the public sector in Feminist Cyberlaw (UC Press 2024).

Cynthia is currently writing a book about state force, law and digital technology under contract with One Signal.

Cynthia joined the HRDAG Advisory Board in March, 2025.