
Emma Cohen is a recent graduate from Wellesley College where she majored in Peace and Justice Studies with a concentration in the carceral state and minored in Environmental Studies. Passionate about conflict transformation and prison abolition, Emma has worked as a Mediation Assistant for the Dispute Resolution Center, volunteered for Restorative Justice Community Action, and tutored in a juvenile detention center through the Petey Greene Program. During undergrad, she participated in the Advocacy and Community Based Training Semester hosted by the University Network for Human Rights. As part of the program, she traveled to Nepal to meet with conflict victims and work with leading advocate Ram Bhandari. She is excited to continue working with Ram and his organization, NEFAD, on transitional justice through the Advocacy Project this summer.