Cohn, D'Vera
Posted 10/21/2010 1:18:00 PM

D'Vera Cohn is a senior writer at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., where she has written or co-authored reports on topics that include U.S. population projections, the impact of the Great Recession, immigration, marriage and motherhood. She was a Washington Post reporter for 21 years, mainly writing about demographics, and was the newspaper's lead reporter for the 2000 Census. After leaving the newspaper in 2006, she served as a consultant and freelance writer for the Pew Hispanic Center, Brookings Institution and Population Reference Bureau. She also has spoken at national journalism conferences about how reporters can make use of demographic data in stories. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she is a former Nieman Fellow.