Dianna Cohen

Activist, Artist, Environmentalist

Dianna Cohen is Co-Founder and CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition and a passionate advocate for a world free of plastic pollution. Plastic Pollution Coalition is a growing global alliance made up of more than 750 organizations, businesses, and notable thought leaders working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, waterways, the ocean, and the environment. A Los Angeles-based visual artist, Dianna has shown her work internationally at galleries, foundations, and museums. She uses plastic in her artwork to make a visual and social impact. With plastic bags as her primary material for 30 years, Cohen is interested in exploring its materiality through modifications and the material’s relationship to culture, media, toxicity, and the world at large and shared this in her 2010 TED talk “Tough Truths About Plastic Pollution" which has been viewed by over 1 million people. Dianna is a frequent speaker and guest and has spoken at the UN and international conferences and symposia, and interviewed by The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, Martha Stewart Living, and many others. Dianna studied Biology, Art, and Film at the University of California, Los Angeles and holds a BA in Fine Arts. Her favorite place to be is at the nexus of science, art and communication which she utilizes to raise awareness about the scope of and solutions to plastic pollution in service of the world we are creating which will allow life on planet earth to thrive.