Jon Cohn is a Vice President, Audience and Community Engagement at LAist. He possess expertise in entertainment, theatre, radio, acting, nonprofits and 20 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "A lot of people in LA have big ideas, but not many of them follow through. Jon followed through. He had the idea of forming a theatre company out of a multi-disciplinary membership, and through his leadership, it happened. Mutineer Theatre Company immediately gained the respect of the critics and local community by producing new works which fearlessly pushed the limits of what independent theatre could be. I had no practical experience designing sound for theatre when I joined the… Show more" and "Jon has been an instrumental and catalytic force within Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) in advancing the critical goal of becoming a centering public service institution for the diverse communities of southern California. Jon leads a high performance live event production team that has hosted a record 127 events at the Crawford Family Forum the last year, with total attendance hitting a record 8,844 - up 20 percent from a year earlier. More importantly, the number of… Show more"