Crane Boy

Diana Cohn is an educator and writer with an active commitment to social justice work. Diana has published 6 picture books for children including Dream Carver, Si Se Puede! Yes We Can!, Namaste! The Bee Tree, Mr. Goethe's Garden and Roses for Isabella. Her 7th book, Crane Boy was inspired by 2 visits to Bhutan and by her interest in how cultural traditions evolve and adapt over time and her interest in the environment and human ecology.

When not writing, Diana works as the Executive Director of the Panta Rhea Foundation, based in Sausalito, California, and oversees grant-making for the Social Imagination, Arts and Education program. Her work at Panta Rhea builds on more than three decades of experience in social justice philanthropy, human rights advocacy and education. She has a BA in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic and an MA in education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Diana serves on the board of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and the Oakland based FoodCraft Institute as well as on the advisory board for Litquake- the West Coast's largest week-long literary festival held each October in San Francisco. When not working or writing, she enjoys hiking and biking with her husband in northern Ca.