Sarah Deutsch is an attorney with over 30 years of experience in internet policy, intellectual property, privacy and related issues.  Sarah formerly was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Verizon Communications, where she spent over 23 years in the Legal Department.  She was responsible for Verizon’s global intellectual property practice, and was the first attorney to oversee its Privacy Office, including managing its Chief Privacy Officer, attorneys and staff.

Sarah was one of the five negotiators for the U.S. telecommunications industry in negotiations, which resulted in the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).  She was the 2014 recipient of the Managing IP In-House Counsel Award at the America’s Women in Business Law Awards. In 2009, she received the Public Knowledge President’s Award for Extraordinary Dedication to Protecting the Free Flow of Information Over the Internet.  In Spring of 2019, Sarah was a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, teaching a class on emerging privacy issues.

She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and serves as Chair of its Board Governance Committee. She is also a Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) a digital civil liberties organization and the National Center for Health Research, a nonpartisan think tank devoted to improving the health of adults and children. She speaks outside of these entities solely in her personal capacity.