Activist Profile: Who is Jared Cohen?

Jared Cohen rocks. At the age of 29, Cohen has worked for the State Department as a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff (the youngest in history) and is now the head of Google Ideas, a Google sponsored think tank. He has made incredible strides in reaching out to youth in the Middle East, getting to know the young adults who are growing into the harsh realities of conflict. During the 2009 post-election protests in Iran, he called his friend and founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, to reschedule maintenance repairs for the social network, so that the protestors could continue to coordinate with each other and foreign media. 


If you want to follow him on Twitter, his name is JaredCohen. (The Peace Report is on Twitter, too, so start following!) Here he is with Stephen Colbert, discussing hanging out with kids in the Middle East.

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