Justin Cohen is founder and lead organizer of Dads for All. He is a dad, author, political activist, and public policy expert working at the intersections of art, activism, community organizing, and social change. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Bklyner, Education Week, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Education Next, Guernica, CityLimits, Bright Magazine, HuffPost, and elsewhere. His first book – Change Agents: Transforming Schools from the Ground Up - was a best-selling new title in the education category on its release in 2022.
Written things …
New York Daily News op-ed, with Moms First Founder Reshma Saujani, on universal childcare
From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood essay about the nonprofit sector, excerpted in the Stanford Social Innovation Review
CityLimits Op-Ed, with New Pride Agenda Executive Director Kei Williams, on jails
The New York Times “The Lives They Loved” Tribute to Sylvia Cohen (AKA my Bubby)
Bklyner article on Brooklyn abolitionist history and present
Patch piece on violent policing
Kings County Politics op-ed on campaigning during the pandemic
Bright long-form on the blurry lines between micro- and home-schooling
Education Next article on new, tiny schools
This one blog post I wrote about racist police violence years ago that a surprising number of people read
Another old blog post about how to talk about race over the holidays that also became a radio piece in Canada somehow
Stanford Social Innovation Review article about school improvement
HuffPost contributor pieces, from when that was a thing
Press and interviews…
2024: New England Public Media portrait, podcast, and profile from the 2024 DNC
2024: NPR talks about Dads for Kamala
2022: The 74 Million interview about education policy
2021: The Indypendent talks about the campaign to save 227 Abolitionist Place
2020: Bklyner highlights Justin’s run for New York State Assembly
2020: BKReader talks about Justin’s “for all” platform
2020: Guernica magazine shares Justin’s first person account of violent police response to protest movements
2019: Brooklyn Eagle talks to Justin about abolition activism
2019: Brooklyn Paper covers No New Jails NYC
2018: Justin in The New York Times talking about school improvement
2018: Slate profiles Politicize My Death
Contact
You can reach Justin at justin at dadsforall dot com