Shalhavit Simcha Cohen

Backstage Manager

Shalhavit Simcha Cohen is a passionate educator certified by the Israeli government, and an upcoming instructional designer who is currently working on creative ways to introduce academic studies on wellbeing. Shalhavit is currently working at MITx on visually innovative education. 

Shalhavit was the project manager for Dr Tal Ben-Shahar and the Harvard Happiness Class, and is still developing projects in the field of Positive Psychology. Her recent lectures were at Harvard Tufts and CUNY.

Fun fact: Shalhavit was 2011 Miss Fitness of Israel and aside from her Wellness studies she believes that not everything is in our heads but our bodies as well.