Her father, Iosif Koen, was one of the Jewish people forced to labor at a highway-building project near Ihtiman during World War II.

[2] After completing her secondary education, she studied musicology and piano at the Bulgarian State Conservatory in Sofia.

She was the executive director and chief playwright of the Sofia Music Weeks festival.

[3] In April 1991, Cohen was appointed Bulgaria's special ambassador to the European Union.

She continued working as a diplomat with NATO and the Western European Union from 1993 to 1996, and with Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 1997 to 2001.

[7] In her article for the magazine "Biograph" from 2011, she denounced unconditionally as "conquering" all the wars waged by the Bulgarian state in the period 1912 - 1944, even when they were waged for territories not only with a Bulgarian ethnic majority, but also for such, decades before that part of the territory of the modern Bulgarian state (such as Southern Dobrudja), while at the same time not blaming Serbia and Greece for the conquest of 90% of Macedonia in alliance with Bulgaria during the First Balkan War, and keeping silent about the atrocities against the Bulgarian population in Macedonia, Thrace and Dobruja after the Second Balkan War, and after the First World War- also in the Western Outlands.