Cathren Cohen

Cathren Cohen (she/her) is a Scholar of Law and Policy with the the UCLA Law Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy Center and the Williams Institute at UCLA Law, where her work focuses on sexual and reproductive rights. Cohen previously served as a Staff Attorney with the National Health Law Program, where she engaged in policy and administrative advocacy to advance access to high quality health care for low-income and underserved individuals with a particular focus on behavioral health care, substance use disorder treatment, and the health needs of LGBTQ individuals, incarcerated populations, and youth in foster care. Prior to that, Cohen was a Law Fellow with Lambda Legal’s Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project, where she advocated for the rights of LGBTQ youth in child welfare, juvenile justice, and homelessness systems of care and opposed efforts to use religion as a license to discriminate. Cohen received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she served as a Senior Articles Editor for the NYU Review of Law and Social Change and served on the board of the law school’s chapter of If/When/How (then Law Students for Reproductive Justice). She received her B.A. with majors in Political Science and Psychology from UCLA.