Claire Cohen has attended Quaker Meetings off and on since 1973. She started attending Pittsburgh Monthly Meeting in 1984 when she moved to Pittsburgh, PA. She has been a member of the Society of Friends for over 15 years. Claire is also a member of the Pennsylvania American Friends Service Committee. One of the main focuses of the Pennsylvania AFSC has been on undoing institutional racism. To that end, it has been sponsoring a local youth group for teens called Youth Undoing Institutional Racism (YUIR). Claire is also the representative to the Annual AFSC Corporate Meeting for Lake Erie Yearly Meeting and a member of the People of Color Caucus of Friends General Conference. In addition to her Quaker activities, she is currently a member of the Western Pennsylvania Black Political Assembly, was a member of local black activist group that held educational events for MLK Day and to Commemorate Malcolm X Day every year, and has been involved in a number other local African-American grassroots groups in the Pittsburgh area over the last 30 years. Claire is also a practicing child psychiatrist, one of only a few hundred in the whole United States.