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Courtney Cogburn is an associate professor at Columbia University School of Social Work. She is an interdisciplinary scholar relying on methods and perspectives in psychology, social work, and public health.

Education and early career
Cogburn received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from University of Virginia in 2001. She then attended University of Michigan, obtaining her Master of Social Work in 2002 and Doctor of Philosophy in Education and Psychology in 2010. She continued at University of Michigan as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Social Research. Cogburn then moved to Harvard University, where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Research
Cogburn started her faculty career at Columbia University in 2014. Her research focuses on measuring racism and how racism affects health outcomes.

1000 Cut Journey
Cogburn created and directed 1000 Cut Journey, an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience where the audience navigates three scenes as a Black person named Michael Sterling. In the first scene, Michael is six years old, being teased by his white classmates and disciplined by his white teacher. In the second scene, Michael is a teenager experiencing an encounter with a police officer. In the last scene, Michael is a Yale University graduate experiencing microaggression during a job interview and is rejected because he is not "a good cultural fit." This 12-minute experience premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018.

1000 Cut Journey was developed by Cogburn and her research group in collaboration with the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University. The content was informed by combining data on classroom disciplinary practices and stop-and-frisk as well as personal narratives. In addition to using 1000 Cut Journey as a tool to educate people about racism, Cogburn and her group are studying how people respond to the experience.

Honors and awards

 * Tribeca Film Festival, Official Selection Virtual Reality Arcade (2018): 1000 Cut Journey
 * Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar (2012)