Jim Cooney is program coordinator for the Government Innovators Network and administers the Network’s online events program. Before coming to the Ash Institute, he spent three years at the Judge Baker Children’s Center in Boston, working as a research assistant on two projects investigating interventions designed to prevent depression in children and teenagers. He also writes creatively in his spare time and is now editing a draft of his first novel. Cooney graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Cornell University in 2002.