Email: lflint@cdt.org

Lara M. Flint is Staff Counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit public interest organization dedicated to protecting civil liberties and democratic values in the digital age. Flint's work at CDT focuses on national security, government surveillance, and First Amendment issues. She has spoken and written extensively on the USA PATRIOT Act, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), airline passenger screening systems and other government data mining projects, as well as domestic intelligence issues. Flint has also litigated important First Amendment issues relating to the Internet.

Prior to joining CDT, Flint was an attorney at Jenner & Block's Washington office and practiced in the areas of appellate, constitutional, telecommunications and redistricting litigation. Flint also has worked at the Center for National Security Studies, where she concentrated on Fourth Amendment issues and the Freedom of Information Act, and on the 2000 presidential race, where she focused on technology, national security and foreign policy issues.

Flint is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. She graduated with highest distinction from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she also earned a degree in international studies. After law school, Flint clerked for the Honorable Milton I. Shadur in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.