Cynthia Wong is a Staff Attorney and the 2008–2010 Ron Plesser Fellow. Cynthia focuses on protecting free expression and promoting human rights in the global online medium.

Prior to joining CDT, Cynthia was the Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow at Human Rights in China (HRIC). There she contributed to HRIC’s work in the areas of business and human rights and freedom of expression online.

Cynthia earned her J.D. at New York University School of Law in 2007. During her summers, Cynthia clerked at CDT and at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. During the school year, Cynthia interned with the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Unit and at HRIC. She also served as a Senior Articles Editor for NYU’s Review of Law & Social Change.

Prior to law school, Cynthia worked as an engineer in the private sector for a year before moving on to serve as an Americorps*VISTA at Katapultz, an organization that promoted public school technology programs. Cynthia graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002.