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Meghan Sobel Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and the Master of Development Practice. Dr. Cohen’s research focuses on digital development and the role of news media in combatting human rights abuses and humanitarian crises around the world, particularly in East Africa. She has given a TEDx talk about sex trafficking that has been viewed more than one million times and she has published in journals such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, International Journal of Communication, Asian Journal of Communication and International Communication Gazette. Her first book, Sex Trafficking and the Media: Perspectives from Thailand and the United States, was published in 2018. She has a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.A. from the University of Denver and B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder
December 17, 2020
It was a most unusual summer project for two students at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs spanning two continents, 10 time zones, and an ocean to deliver important public health information about the coronavirus pandemic to an isolated island population in Kenya. But the students, who are pursuing their Master of Development Practice (MDP) degrees, took on and succeeded in that challenge.
Aimee Carlson and Neamatallah Elsayed (both MDP ‘21) collaborated with several partner organizations to create and implement a COVID-19 information campaign for the 30,000 or so residents on Mfangano Island, situated in the eastern part of Lake Victoria about 10 miles off the coast of Kenya. And they did it all over Zoom.