Marianne Cooper

Sociologist, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

Marianne Cooper is a senior research scholar at Stanford University and was the lead researcher for Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg.

She is a contributor to LeanIn.org, a contributing writer to the Atlantic, and a LinkedIn influencer. She is an expert on gender, diversity and inclusion, financial insecurity, and social inequality.

She writes, speaks, and consults about these issues for media outlets, companies, and professional groups such as Amazon, American Express, and Kraft. Her book, Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times, examines how families are coping in an insecure age.

She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.