Justin C. Cohen

- Board of Advisors

Justin C. Cohen is a writer, activist, public policy expert, and nonprofit executive. He is the author most recently of “Change Agents: Transforming Schools From the Ground Up.” In 2020, he ran for State Assembly in his home district of Crown Heights, NY. Previously, Justin served as Chief Strategy Officer at Cambiar Education, a not for profit design studio that offers growth and incubation support to entrepreneurs focused on social impact and co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer of Wayfinder Foundation, which provides micro-grants to community activists working in historically marginalized communities. Justin’s work as a writer has appeared in The New York Times, Education Week, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and HuffPost. Previously, he served as president of Boston-based education nonprofit Mass Insight Education, and as a senior advisor to the chancellor at the DC Public Schools.

Justin has been a fellow of the Broad Academy, and an organizer with Racial Justice BK and No New Jails NYC. He was a writer in residence at the Carey Institute for the Global Good and served on the education policy committee for President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. He holds a BA in cognitive science from Yale.