About
Driven by a sense of possibility, I follow my curiosity.
I’ve worked as a teacher on the US-Mexico border in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, a policy wonk in Washington, DC, and a land use planner in Wyoming. Since 2019 I have served as executive director of 89.1 KHOL in Jackson Hole where I’ve transformed Wyoming’s only community radio station into an award-winning newsroom with a reach across 19 stations in five states in the Rocky Mountain West. I am an avid (yet very amateur) fiddler of Appalachian old-time and klezmer music. When not playing tunes you can usually find me playing outside — skiing, hiking, or foraging for wild mushrooms.
J O U R N A L I S M: producing, reporting, writing, editing; AP style; copy-editing
A U D I O / V I S U A L: Adobe Audition, Audacity, Premier and DaVinci Resolve
W E B: WordPress, basic HTML and SEO strategy
D E S I G N: Adobe Creative Suite, hand-sketching, ProCreate, AutoCAD
P E O P L E: organizational leadership, public speaking, community engagement, press outreach, fundraising; fluent Spanish
E D U C A T I O N:
The Conway School (MSc., Ecological Design)
University of Wisconsin - Madison (BA, Political Science)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
T E S T I M O N I A L S:
“How does a grassroots radio station that started in the basement of a downtown barber shop grow into a robust local news source?
Two words: Emily Cohen.”
“… a special animal. incredibly smart and savvy. Mysterious…Vicious and fierce when necessary. Fundamentally nonplussed.“ - Dan Gutstein, vocalist for punk band Joy on Fire and author of non/fiction, Bloodcoal & Honey, and Buildings Without Murders
“One seldom meets a person so brimming with vision, who possesses the energy and tenacity necessary to make these visions a reality, and a talent for motivating her collaborators, coupled with the ability to overcome the challenges that arise when one is building something worthwhile.” - John Grunwell, NASA