Reyna Cohen

Reyna Cohen is a Research and Policy Development Associate at the Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell University's ILR School.

Cohen’s work focuses on tackling climate change through the lens of economic and environmental justice. At CJI, she has overseen research creating whole-of-economy policy roadmaps to uplift equity and union jobs through the clean energy transition in Pennsylvania and Oregon; documenting working conditions in green manufacturing industries to support labor-community organizing, and exploring emerging technologies in building decarbonization that can serve as a pathway to just transition for fossil fuel workers and working-class communities.

Before her role at CJI, Cohen served as the Just Transition Policy Manager for ALIGN & NY Renews, organizing labor unions in support of climate justice policy and developing and helping to pass the most ambitious labor standards in the country here in New York. Cohen has also led campaigns to help secure $500M in electric school bus funding in New York and developed equity and social justice policy frameworks for the City and County of Honolulu.

Cohen received her M.Sc. in International Social and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her MA from the University of Edinburgh.