Helene Cooper
Helene Cooper is a Liberia-born American journalist who is a White House Correspondent for the New York Times. She was born in Monrovia, Liberia and studied journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1987. She received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for her coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.
She is the author of the memoir, The House of Sugar Beach; In search of a lost African Childhood which examines the violent past of her home country Liberia.
