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.
Marie Miller
Marie Miller is the Program Associate at the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. She contributes to the Centers’ varying research projects, events, programs, and publications.
Prior to her current role, Marie’s work spanned various think tank and government internships, including the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights. Most recently, she served as an intern at the Brookings Institution, where she aided the Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security Project’s research, fact-checking, and literature review processes. Additionally, she served as a research assistant to the Dean of SIPA at Columbia University, where she provided research for the edited volume Inside the Situation Room (2025) by Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo and former Secretary Hillary Clinton. She has been the recipient of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies’ Emerging Voices in International Affairs Fellowship, the Harriman Institute’s Padma Desai Fellowship, the Committee on Global Thought’s Global Thought Fellowship, and the Columbia Department of Political Science’s Phyllis Stevens Sharp Fellowship in American Politics. Her work has appeared in The Diplomat and the Holder Initiative Justice Review, among other publications.
Marie graduated with a BA in Economics-Political Science from Columbia University, where she received departmental and Latin honors.
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.
