Azza Cohen
Princeton
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
Film
Azza is the official videographer and director of video for Vice President Kamala Harris. As a 2017 Mitchell Scholar, Azza studied Culture and Colonialism at the University of Galway. While there, she volunteered for Arts for Amnesty and served as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate film course. Azza is a 2016 graduate of Princeton where she majored in History. Before her undergraduate studies, she spent a year volunteering at Guria, a nonprofit organization based in Varanasi, India. Her work there led to her directing and a producing a documentary, Specks of Dust, which profiled the Indian activists at Guria fighting human trafficking, funded by the Dalai Lama Fellows and the Kathryn W. Davis Foundation. The film includes a curriculum about human rights and ethical leadership. Azza's academic research has studied the British Empire and postcolonial border conflicts. Her interest in Northern Ireland was sparked when she lived with a Belfast family as part of high school exchange program. Her dissertation was a combination of written and visual scholarship on the devastating social and economic effects of the 2016 Brexit vote on Irish border communities. Azza obtained her undergraduate degree from Princeton. Azza obtained her MFA in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University.