Dylan Cohen

Dylan Cohen (he/him) is a second-year graduate student in City Planning at MIT. His interests surround participatory planning, better public services, and politicizing lived experience in the policy making process. He has worked in the affordable housing sector, in facilitation, evaluation, and as an instructor at two youth policy programs. In Vancouver he led both the multi-neighborhood community development project Hi Neighbor at United Way, addressing social isolation through resident co-creation, and the youth organizing and policy campaign Fostering Change, which sought new outcomes and legislation for youth leaving the child welfare system.