Mary Louise Cohen, JD

Mary Louise, a graduate of Harvard Law School, is a founding partner of Phillips & Cohen LLP and has represented whistleblowers for more than 25 years in lawsuits brought to remedy fraud against the United States. Her firm has recovered more than $12 billion for state and federal governments in cases filed under the False Claims Act, and Law Dragon recently named her as one of the 32 most influential lawyers of the last decade. In 2007, Mary Louise and Grammy Award winner Angelique Kidjo created the Batonga Foundation to support secondary education for girls in Africa. In 2010, she co-founded the Aslan Project to improve survival rates for children with cancer in the developing world. She also serves on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Board for UNICEF-USA.

Mary Louise and her husband, Bruce Cohen, were 2014 Fellows with the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. Based on their work at Harvard, they founded Talent Beyond Boundaries to develop a new labor mobility solution for refugees by connecting skilled refugees with global talent gaps.