Jessica Herrera-Flanigan

Fellow for Cybersecurity
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A former federal prosecutor and senior Congressional advisor, Jessica R. Herrera-Flanigan has extensive experience in national security, law enforcement, immigration, sports, telecommunications, Internet, diversity, and privacy issues. She currently is a partner at the consultancy Monument Policy Group. Previously, she served as the Staff Director and General Counsel for the House Committee on Homeland Security and Senior Counsel at the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice. Jessica also was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney working on fraud and public corruption cases in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. and an associate at the law firm Crowell & Morning. Jessica is on the Advisory Board of the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council and a Member of the ABA Standing Committee on Law & National Security. She has been named three times (2000, 2002, 2008) by Hispanic Business magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States because of her work on innovation and security issues. She also has been honored by Women in Government Relations with its Congressional Staff Award and by the Women's High Tech Coalition with a Women in Cybersecurity Award.