Cohen Curtis

Cohen has been heavily involved in re-entry Integrated Services for going on 7 years. Before joining Mass Liberation, he led a team of five as the Lead Community Health Worker at St. John’s Community Health Clinic. He was an Administration Assistant for Heidi Rummel at the USC School of Gould Post Justice Conviction Projects. At USC, he was a keynote speaker, sharing his firsthand experiences as someone who became incarcerated at the age of seventeen. While working at USC, he also worked at Human Rights Watch, co-facilitating workshops for parole hearings, mock hearings, and support groups within prison. Cohen plans in the future to have an educational organization in creating culturally responsive learning environments that engage and inspire African American/ Black youth to make better choices and demonstrate achievement gains as they prepare to succeed in college, career, and community. At Mass Liberation, Cohen serves as the program manager for the logistics and apartment maintenance vocational programs.