Tania Cohen

Tania is IRAP’s Senior Manager for Development Content and Legal Philanthropy. In this role, she leads efforts to create compelling, timely written materials about IRAP’s programs and works to increase philanthropic engagement with the legal community in order to mobilize support for IRAP’s direct legal services and advocacy for refugee rights.

Prior to joining IRAP, she lived and worked in Germany for two years, including as a fellow with the Congress-Bundestag Young Professionals Exchange. While in Germany, she worked with local NGOs to design and implement professional development and cultural exchange programs for refugees and asylum seekers, and volunteered with German legal service organizations helping asylum seekers obtain lasting safety. Previously, she worked at the American Society of International Law and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Tania holds an M.A. with distinction in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration from the University of London, where her thesis focused on Afghan access to international protection in the European Union since 2013. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University in political science, with minors in European history and Italian.