ABOUT ME…

I am Heidi Boghosian, a New York city-based attorney.

I co-host Law and Disorder Radio, and am executive director of the A.J. Muste Institute, supporting activist organizations. Before that I was executive director of the National Lawyers Guild. My book Spying on Democracy was published weeks after Edward Snowden’s revelations of NSA mass surveillance. My latest book is “I Have Nothing to Hide” and 20 Other Myths About Privacy and Surveillance (2021).

I write amicus (“friend of the court”) briefs in cases of government overreaching or impropriety such as the Cuban Five, the SHAC 7, Mumia Abu-Jama, and Ross Ulbricht.

In the late 1980s I edited a community paper, the East Villager. I’m on the board of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space that preserves the history of East Village community gardens and squats.