Vote Rev
Michael Cohn has extensive work experience in research, data analysis, and user experience (UX) roles. Their most recent position is as Deputy Director of Research: Data & Evaluation at Vote Rev (formerly VoteTripling.org), starting in September 2021. Prior to that, they worked as a Quantitative UX Researcher at Google from November 2017 to September 2021. In 2020, they served as the User Experience Lead for Biden for President for a two-month period. From 2016 to 2017, they were a Data Scientist at Uber. In 2016, they also worked as a UX Freelancer, providing user research, UX/UI design, and usability consulting. Michael has a background in behavioral research and is open to consulting work and full-time opportunities. Before that, they were a student at General Assembly from November 2015 to March 2016. From 2011 to 2015, they worked at the University of California, San Francisco as a Research Specialist and Wellness Coordinator, where they conducted surveys, managed wellness programs, and created datasets. Michael also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the same university from 2008 to 2011.
Michael Cohn earned a PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan from 2002 to 2008. Michael also obtained a BA in Psychology and Plan 2 from The University of Texas at Austin between 1996 and 2001. Additionally, they pursued User Experience Design at General Assembly from 2015 to 2016 and studied Health/Medical Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco from 2008 to 2011.
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Vote Rev
As the only nonprofit behavioral design team in the progressive movement, we work with partner organizations to fill a critical gap: designing and quickly mainstreaming voter engagement tactics that help win elections and campaigns. We are a team of thinkers and doers. We’re a team of behavioral researchers and former campaigners. We believe you need both kinds of expertise to understand the way that campaigns—and the people who make them run—work. We're coaches and trainers. We work side-by-side with partner organizations to help staff and volunteers quickly adopt tactics and build the processes needed to refine and scale tactics well into the future. We're intentional risk-takers. We believe that the urgency around helping progressives win means that we can’t just retool old tactics and we can’t stop at reaching a few more voters here and there. In order to reach the voters needed to truly transform our democracy, we need to define underlying problems and design solutions that tackle them head-on—even if it means throwing out the rules.