Zehava Robbins, Counsel

Zehava Robbins serves as counsel to EPI and is the lead attorney for EPI’s FOIA Advocacy Project. She works with investigative journalists and researchers to fight for transparency and accountability under the federal Freedom of Information Act and state public records laws, filing administrative appeals and lawsuits where necessary to obtain responsive records.

Before joining EPI, Zehava worked as Public Records Counsel at Essential Information Inc. and as an Assistant District Attorney for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in their Conviction Integrity Unit and then their Civil Litigation Unit, where she handled requests and appeals under Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law. After graduating from Stanford Law School, Zehava clerked for Justice Frank Gaziano of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.