Amanda Tuminelli

Amanda Tuminelli is the executive director and chief legal officer of the DeFi Education Fund, a Washington D.C. advocacy organization defending decentralized finance developers and users, where she has led impact litigation and policy work since joining as CLO in March 2023 and took over as executive director in March 2025. She is a prominent voice on issues like the application of money transmission law to open-source developers, the Tornado Cash and Roman Storm cases, and U.S. stablecoin legislation. Before DEF she was a lawyer at Kobre & Kim defending clients in criminal and regulatory investigations and enforcement actions in the crypto space, clerked for Judge Ann M. Donnelly of the Eastern District of New York, and practiced white-collar and securities litigation at Dechert.

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