Daniel Cogan, ’11
Daniel Cogan, ’11, Bedford, TX, became the city’s youngest mayor in October 2023. Initially elected to Bedford’s City Council in 2018, Cogan won re-election in 2021 as the council member for Place 2 and stepped in as mayor pro tem in September 2023. In addition, Cogan continues to serve the community as the sixth grade science and world cultures teacher at South Euless Elementary in Texas.
His experience at Kent State, especially as a communication studies student, continues to lend itself in his activism and outreach for his city. He earned a Master of Education from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2015 and lives in Bedford, Texas, with his wife and fellow Kent State alumna Sneha Jose, ’11, and their daughter, Jiya (Class of 2037).