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Shannon Cohn is an American documentary filmmaker, lawyer and activist. She is best-known as the filmmaker behind the critically-acclaimed feature documentary Endo What? She produced several feature films with New York City based production company Mangusta Productions and produced and appears in the television travel-adventure series Sea Nation with Globe Trekker host Megan McCormick.

Background
Cohn studied film at New York University's Graduate Film Program at Tisch School of the Arts.

Career
Cohn produced and distributed feature documentaries with Mangusta Productions including Monogamish with director Tao Ruspoli featuring Dan Savage and Esther Perel which premiered at the 2015 Rome International Film Festival, Neurons to Nirvana which premiered at the 2013 Vancouver Film Festival ; The Lottery of Birth featuring Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva, Stephen Pinker and Tony Benn; Being in the World which won the Audience Award at the 2010 Brooklyn Film Festival and 2012 Time for Change with Sting , Ellen Page and David Lynch.

In 2009, she filmed Sea Nation, a travel adventure series that followed her and Globe Trekker host Megan McCormick as they sold everything they owned and hitchhiked on boats with their families. The first season has appeared in over 60 countries on Discovery Channel and on Outside Television Outside Television in the United States.

In 2016, Cohn premiered Endo What? a documentary about endometriosis, a disease that affects 1 in 10 women. Positively received by the press, it was called "film of the year," by Gabrielle Jackson of The Guardian, a film that "shatters the myths surrounding endometriosis" by The New York Times and "the first step in a plan to educate and organize for change" by Newsweek.

Personal
Cohn is married to Patricio Cohn, an Argentine filmmaker. They have two children.