Rebecca Richman Cohen is an Emmy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches media theory and advocacy for social justice lawyers. In her classroom and her films, she uses personal stories to challenge mainstream media narratives about complex issues at the intersection of law and culture. Her films have won awards at film festivals including SXSW and Tribeca and have been broadcast on platforms including HBO, Amazon, Netflix, the New York Times, MSNBC, Public Television, Al Jazeera, and more. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), American University’s Human Rights Institute, and Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. She was a 2012 Soros Justice Fel­low, a 2015 fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, a 2019 fellow at Harvard’s Film Study Center, and a 2022 visiting fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.