Donald Cohen is the director of the Cry Wolf Project (www.crywolfproject.org), a nonprofit research network that identifies and exposes misleading rhetoric about the economy, regulation and government. He is also the Chair of In the Public Interest (www.inthepublicinterest.org), a national resource center on privatization and responsible contracting. He is the former co-founder and president of the Center on Policy Initiatives, a San Diego-based research and policy center. He is a founding board member of the Partnership for Working Families, a national federation of metropolitan-based research, policy and action centers. He is on the board of Green For All, the Ballot Initiatives Strategy Center and the Labor Project for Working Families.