Flora Cohen, PhD, LCSW is a dedicated professor, therapist, and researcher with a profound commitment to unraveling the complexities of mental health and psychosocial wellbeing, particularly in cross-cultural contexts. As an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Flora teaches courses on global mental health, intervention implementation, and rigorous research methods to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. Clinically, Flora has largely worked with people experiencing common mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. She also works with clients to integrate cultural idioms of distress and healing into treatment approaches. Flora has lent her expertise to humanitarian efforts internationally, working intimately with forcibly displaced populations to co-develop, co-implement, and co-evaluate community-based psychosocial support interventions alongside community members. Informed by transformative and liberatory theories, Flora is an advocate for participatory and decolonized approaches to research and programming.