Tom Bowman serves as Policy Counsel with CDT’s Security & Surveillance Project, where he focuses on encryption, commercial spyware, reproductive and gender-affirming care, and law enforcement use of surveillance technologies. He represents CDT in numerous coalitions, including the Steering Committee of the Global Encryption Coalition, the Immigrant Surveillance Working Group, the Police Tech Working Group, and the Repro+Surveillance Privacy Hub.
Prior to joining CDT, Tom worked as an assistant public defender at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, where he represented clients facing misdemeanor and felony charges. He also interned at the Federal Public Defender for the District of Alaska. Earlier in his career, Tom taught English in Bulgaria.
Tom earned his B.S. in International Relations from the University of Iowa and his J.D. from NYU School of Law.