NYT's Helene Cooper spoke at school's May commencement
Helene Calista Cooper spoke at the school's commencement ceremony on May 9 at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill.
Cooper is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Prior to that, she was the diplomatic correspondent for the Times for three years, after a stint on the Times’ editorial page as assistant editor.
Before joining the Times in 2004, Cooper worked for 12 years at The Wall Street Journal, covering international trade, foreign policy and economics out of the newspaper’s Atlanta, Washington and London bureaus. Before joining the Journal, she worked at the Providence Journal-Bulletin, where she covered state and local governments.
Cooper is a native of Monrovia, Liberia, and is the author of The New York Times bestseller, "The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood."