Helene Cooper

Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist, Pentagon Correspondent, Author

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Helene Cooper Biography

Helene Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with a profound understanding of global and national security issues, currently serving as the Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times. Previously, she has held positions as a White House correspondent, diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, and a reporter and foreign correspondent at the Wall Street Journal. Her extensive field reporting has taken her to over 86 countries, including conflict-ridden areas like Pakistan and the Congo, enriching her coverage of international economics, politics, race, and foreign policy.

Born into a well-to-do family in Liberia, Cooper had to flee the country after the 1980 coup, an experience that deeply influences her writing and perspectives. This tumultuous part of her life is poignantly captured in her bestselling memoir, "The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood," which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography in 2009. She has also penned "Madame President," chronicling the life of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

In addition to winning the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for her coverage of the Ebola crisis in 2015, Cooper's investigative work has earned her several accolades, including an Overseas Press Club Award, the George Polk Award for Health Reporting, and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for International Journalism. She has been a featured speaker at notable institutions like Rice University, Bergen Community College, and Johns Hopkins SAIS, and has appeared on major TV programs such as Meet the Press, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and Morning Joe, discussing a range of critical issues from her columns which focus on the Pentagon and U.S. military.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/03/2024.

Helene Cooper Speaking Topics

  • The Latest From Washington

    As White House correspondent for the New York Times, Helene Cooper takes us beyond the headlines and into the real substance of what’s behind them. A veteran reporter who also served as diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times and as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, she understands how the news in Washington affects the rest of the world and how international issues affect Washington.

  • The House at Sugar Beach: A Personal Journey

    Journalist Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -• traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two room mansion by the sea in a childhood filled with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a country estate. When Helene was eight, the Coopers took in a foster child, a Bassa girl named Eunice. For years the Cooper daughters -• Helene, her sister Marlene, and Eunice -• blissfully enjoyed the trappings of wealth and advantage.

    But on April 12, 1980 a group of soldiers staged a coup d'etat, assassinating Liberian President William Tolbert and executing his cabinet. The Coopers and the entire Congo class were now the hunted, being imprisoned, shot, tortured, and raped. Helene, Marlene, and their mother fled Sugar Beach for America. They left Eunice behind.

    A world away, Helene tried to assimilate as an American and discovered her passion for journalism, eventually becoming a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and White House correspondent for the New York Times. She reported from every part of the globe -• except Africa -• as Liberia descended into war-torn, third-world hell. In 2003, a near-death experience in Iraq convinced Helene that Liberia -• and Eunice -• could wait no longer. It’s not only a deeply personal story, but one of a violent and stratified country to which her own family is inextricably linked.

Helene Cooper Videos

  • Helene Cooper: 2017 National Book Festival - YouTube
    Helene Cooper discusses "Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf" at the 2017 Library of Congress National ...
  • Women Who Inspire Lecture Series with Helene Cooper - YouTube
    Women Who Inspire Lecture Series with Helene Cooper. SAIS events. Loading... Unsubscribe from SAIS events? Cancel Unsubscribe.
  • A conversation with NYT's Helene Cooper and Dean Susan King ...
    Helene Cooper, White House correspondent for The New York Times and a UNC journalism alumna, gave the UNC School of Media and ...

Helene Cooper Books

  • The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
    The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood

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