Wendy Cohen, Director, Digital Campaigns & Community, TakePart

Wendy Cohen
Director, Digital Campaigns & Community
TakePart

Wendy Cohen joined Participant in November of 2007 as the Manager of Community and Alliances and the founding editor of the TakePart.com blog. Wendy has developed innovative online and mobile initiatives for Charlie Wilson’s War, The Visitor, Food, Inc. The Cove and Page One: Inside the New York Times. She shepherded the digital component of social action campaign for Waiting for “Superman” and is currently working on Last Call at the Oasis.

Wendy was born and raised in Montreal and graduated first in her class from Concordia University's Communications and Culture Studies program. Prior to Participant, Wendy was the first Community Manager for The Huffington Post in New York City and she co-founded the Screening Liberally film series, of which she remains the National Director. Wendy began her work in film in 2004 as the Programmer and Outreach Coordinator for the Media That Matters Film Festival and Media That Matters: Good Food project. She also worked as the researcher and creative assistant on The Art of the Documentary (New Riders Press) and has been the co-curator of the Netroots Nation screening series since 2007. In 2009, Wendy produced “Every Third Bite”, an award-winning short documentary about bees hailed as a “better bee movie” by New York Magazine and last year produced the Sundance Institute's trailer that screened before all narrative films at the 2010 Sundance film festival. She was recently featured in the New York Times and the Chronicle of Philanthropy and continues to be a guest lecturer and panelist at festivals and schools around the country. Last year, Wendy received the New Leaders Council’s 40 Under 40 Leadership Award.