Our Staff
Diana Cohn is Executive Director of the Panta Rhea Foundation, based in Sausalito, California, and oversees grantmaking for the Social Imagination, Arts and Education Program and the Pollination Ecology Program. Her work at Panta Rhea builds on more than two decades of experience in social justice philanthropy, human rights advocacy and education. She holds a BA in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic and an MA in Educational Policy from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is an award-winning children's book author, a writer on indigenous beekeeping traditions and a hobbyist beekeeper. Contact: diana[at]pantarhea.org
Janet Shenk is a program officer at the Panta Rhea Foundation, overseeing grantmaking on issues of corporate accountability. She previously served as executive director of the Arca Foundation, and as a Special Assistant to John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO. She has lived and travelled extensively in Latin America, working for the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) and later as international editor at Mother Jones magazine. She holds a BA in Political Science from Smith College and an MA in Economics from the New School for Social Research. Janet lives with her family in Washington, D.C. Contact:janet[at]pantarhea.org
Zoe Lane is the Grants Manager and Office Manager at the Panta Rhea Foundation. Zoe has more than 10 years of experience working on economic and environmental justice issues. She has worked on development and communications for the Breast Cancer Fund and Good Jobs First, and also previously served as the Grants Manager for the Rosenberg Foundation in San Francisco. Contact: zoe[at]pantarhea.org