Steven H. Cohen

Steve is a Chicago-based attorney who is nationally recognized for his representation of whistle-blowers. Since 2001, Steve's law firm, Cohen Law Group, has been representing private citizen whistleblowers who uncover fraud, waste, and abuse of taxpayer-funded programs. He has prosecuted dozens of cases of fraud involving health care, government contracting, and federally insured financial institutions that have returned more than a half-billion dollars to state and federally funded programs.

Since 2009, Steve has broadened his involvement with impact documentaries and media. Prior to co-founding Chicago Media Project, Steve helped finance dozens of award-winning documentaries as a member of Impact Partners, including 'Hell and Back Again', 'The Island President', 'How to Survive A Plague', 'Inequality For All.' As a co-founder of CMP and co-manager of the CMP Invest/Impact Fund, Steve has overseen more than 2 million dollars of grant and equity funding for numerous documentaries including, 'Notes on Blindness', 'The Eagle Huntress' and 'Audrie & Daisy' and most recently, 'Trophy', 'Icarus', 'Dina' and 'Step'.

Steve is also a member of the Gamechanger film fund, whose mission is to finance and produce women-directed feature films. Gamechanger financed films include 'Land Ho!', 'The Invitation', 'Fresno' and 'Lovesong', which premiered at Sundance 2016.

Steve also serves on the boards of a several academic and non-profit organizations, including Beloit College, Saybrook University, TCS Educational System and the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.