Our Team
Judith H. Germano
Judith H. Germano is a nationally-recognized thought leader on cybersecurity governance and privacy issues. She is a Distinguished Fellow at the NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS) and Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and NYU Stern School of Business. Judi founded the Women Leaders in Cybersecurity series, and leads the CCS Cybersecurity Leaders Roundtable series of corporate executives and senior government officials addressing critical cybersecurity concerns.
Rose Kohler
Rose Kohler is the Program Associate for NYU Law’s Center for Cybersecurity and the Reiss Center on Law and Security. She contributes to both centers’ varying operations, events, publications, programs, and research projects.
Prior to her current role, Rose was an editorial intern at Foreign Affairs, where she aided the magazine’s publishing routines, research, and idea development. She also served as a research assistant to multiple professors, including Pulitzer Prize winning historian David W. Blight, and spent time working for various nonprofits. She graduated cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in history with distinction. Her senior thesis, an exploration of war history and personal memory in soldier-authored literature, was awarded Yale’s John H. Curtis Prize for Excellence and published in theYale Historical Review. It was also nominated for both the European and American history senior essay prizes. She has studied in New Haven and London.
Marianna Kozak
Marianna Kozak is the Operations Manager at the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. In this role, she oversees the operations, finance, and administration of both Centers and advises on strategic planning. Prior to her current role, Marianna served as the Executive Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer at NYU Law, where she spearheaded and managed various initiatives with both the academic community and the Law School Board of Trustees. She previously served as a Litigation Paralegal at Boies, Schiller and Flexner, LLP, where the scope of her work primarily focused on arbitration in the financial and banking sectors. Marianna graduated from NYU with a BA in Politics and an MA in International Relations with a Concentration in International Politics and Business.
