Lata Nott is executive director of the Freedom Forum Institute’s First
Amendment Center, which has offices at the Newseum, in Washington, D.C.;
and at the John Seigenthaler Center, on the Vanderbilt University campus,
in Nashville, Tenn.
Nott formerly was the assistant director of admissions at the Georgetown
University Law Center, where she implemented strategies to increase
diversity, promote the scholarship program for high-need students, and
integrate technology into the Law Center’s recruitment efforts.
Prior to that, she was a litigator in New York City at the law firms of
Proskauer Rose and Chadbourne Parke. In addition to her commercial
litigation practice, she maintained an active pro-bono practice focused on
asylum cases, and developed a proficiency in legal issues surrounding the
Internet, data privacy, and cybersecurity, frequently contributing to
Chadbourne Parke’s technology law blog. She graduated from the University
of California, Davis, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a Bachelor of
Arts in international relations. She earned her Juris Doctor from Columbia
Law School in 2010. At Columbia, she was a staff editor on the Human Rights
Law Review and chair of the South Asian Law Students Association. She
remains an active member of the New York Bar and the American Bar
Association.
The First Amendment Center educates the public, policy makers, lawyers,
journalists, students, and teachers about free expression issues. The
Center is nonpartisan and does not lobby or litigate, but it is one of the
most authoritative sources for information news, and analysis of issues
relating to free expression, press freedom and religious liberty.
www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center