General Counsel
Eileen B. Hershenov is the General Counsel for Consumers Union (CU), an expert, independent, nonprofit organization whose
mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers. CU publishes Consumer Reports and ConsumerReports.org. In her position, Eileen provides and coordinates legal counsel with respect to all of the organization's activities.
Before joining CU in 2005, Hershenov spent eleven years with the Open Society Institute, the flagship private foundation created
and funded by financier and philanthropist George Soros. For most of that time she served as the foundation's General Counsel,
heading an in-house legal department. In that capacity she also represented affiliated Soros foundations and programs in nearly
50 countries worldwide. Hershenov simultaneously served as the General Counsel to Central European University, a New York
graduate university with a principal campus in Budapest, Hungary. From 1992 to 1994, she was a litigation associate with the
law firm of Morrison & Foerster in New York. Prior to that, she was a Karpatkin Fellow with the National Legal Department
of the American Civil Liberties Union, a Judicial Law Clerk to U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein, and an advocate for
the New York Public Interest Research Group.
A member of the New York State Bar, Hershenov is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. She is the author of The Effect of Equity on Mass Tort Law (1991, with Judge Jack B. Weinstein) and Hostage to the Drug War: The National Purse, the Constitution and the Black Community (1991, with John A. Powell). She sits on the Board of Directors of the Appleseed Foundation. She lives in Westchester County
with her husband, a writer, and two children.
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