40 Under 40: Mira Cohen
Mazel Tov to Mira Cohen for being named to Jewish Atlanta's 40 Under 40.
Mira Cohen may be best known to AJT readers as a co-founder of the Jewish Marketing Network.
Cohen grew up in Bethesda, Md., in a Conservative Jewish home. She attended Hebrew school from first grade through confirmation, spent eight summers at Capital Camps, and participated in Alexander Muss High School in Israel and Young Judaea Year Course, where she volunteered with Yad LaKashish – “lifeline for the old.”
After school, pursuing her passion in music brought her to Atlanta, where she worked with Atlanta Public Schools’ WeCreate program, partnering with student musicians at Grady High School.
While in Atlanta, her previous experience with Yad LaKashish led her to a volunteer program with JF&CS’s Aviv Older Adult Services.
“I like solving problems and helping people, and I didn’t call my grandparents enough, and I no longer have any grandparents on either side. During COVID, I figured I could call other people’s grandparents, so I found the One Good Deed program, and got matched.”
Then she rose to the position of Senior Manager of Creative Strategy, where she won the Stacy G. Fialkow JF&CS Staff Appreciation Award Winner (2025). It was also here where she helped found the Jewish Marketing Network.
“Essentially all the Jewish orgs in Atlanta are working so hard, and we’re all under the umbrella of a similar mission, and I recognized that no one was talking to each other – the mouthpieces of these organizations – just because we were in silos and busy. I teamed up with Lydia from Federation’s marketing team and said ‘what if we were able to get everybody together and create an environment where people could exchange ideas?”
Today, her focus is on Submicronix, an indoor cleaning business she founded focusing on the immunocompromised, using the same tech from cleanrooms used for microchip manufacturing. This is something she notes she is personally connected to, and something that felt in line with the nonprofit/social services work she was doing; her constant mission of solving problems and helping people.