Cathren Cohen (she/her) is a Staff Attorney in the National Health Law Program’s Los Angeles office, where she advocates for to high quality health care for low-income and underserved individuals, with a particular focus on behavioral health care, substance use disorder treatment, the needs of youth in foster care, LGBTQ rights, and religious refusals. Before joining the National Health Law Program, Cathren was a Law Fellow with Lambda Legal’s Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project.

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