Sara Geoghegan

Sara Geoghegan 

Sara Geoghegan is Senior Counsel at EPIC. Her work focuses on commercial surveillance, consumer privacy, and health and reproductive privacy. She oversees EPIC’s Consumer Privacy Program. 

She is a graduate of University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the UIC Journal of Privacy & Technology Law, an Associate Justice on the Moot Court Honors Board, and on the Trial Advocacy & Alternative Dispute Resolution Council. She also worked as a teaching assistant for a legal writing appellate advocacy course.  

Sara has written about targeted advertising, data brokers, data minimization, and surveillance capitalism as a threat to reproductive privacy, and in 2026 she published a comprehensive report on health privacy titled Beyond HIPAA: Reimagining How Privacy Laws Apply to Health Data to Maximize Equity in the Digital Age. 

Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, Bloomberg Law, BBC World News, and many other outlets. 

She also holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Illinois Bar.  

Areas of expertise: Health and reproductive privacy, commercial surveillance, data brokers, AI and programmatic advertising, targeted advertising, and consumer privacy. 

Pronouns: she/her 
 
Contact: [Mailbox], 202.483.1140 x129