Aysha Cohen

District of Columbia United States

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NGO / Public Service

Aysha ("eye-shah") Cohen is recent graduate of UCLA's Masters of Urban & Regional Planning (MURP) program. While at UCLA, she conducted research as a Fulbright Eco-Leadership scholar in Canada and as a UCLA Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) scholar in Los Angeles. Her capstone research for the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), "Equity in Motion: Bikeshare in Low-Income Communities", geospatially and statistically analyzed 84 factors to forecast bikeshare ridership at the station-level in high poverty areas of Washington, DC. She is a co-founder of “The Olive Tree Initiative: Armenia-Turkey", an interdisciplinary travel-study conflict resolution group. She speaks Spani...