About Marilyn Cohen

Marilyn Cohen

Marilyn Cohen

Marilyn Cohen, PhD, Professor Emerita at University of WA in Seattle, one of Founders and current executive director of Action for Media Education, and Director of the Northwest Center for Excellence in Media Literacy, College of Education, UW. She has organized conferences and workshops designed to grow the US media literacy movement, including the first US Media Literacy Research Summit (2007). Marilyn developed numerous media literacy-based movement curriculum materials widely implemented by schools.