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Office of Alumni Affairs and Development

Phone: (212) 353-4164
Email: alumni@cooper.edu | development@cooper.edu

Mailing Address:
The Cooper Union
P.O. Box 22422
New York, NY 10087-2422

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For more specific inquiries, contact one of the following staff members:

Terri Coppersmith
Vice President, Alumni Affairs and Development
terri.coppersmith@cooper.edu

Madeline Conroy
Development Associate
madeline.conroy@cooper.edu

Jennifer Durst
Deputy Director, Alumni Affairs and Development
jennifer.durst@cooper.edu

Michaela Dwyer
Development Specialist, Institutional Giving and Sponsored Projects
michaela.dwyer@cooper.edu

Helen M. Freeman
Assistant Director for Alumni Affairs
helen.freeman@cooper.edu

Rebecca Kaplan
Development Associate
rebecca.kaplan@cooper.edu

Ellie Perendy
Prospect Research Specialist
ellie.perendy@cooper.edu

Nate Stuhl
Development Associate
nate.stuhl@cooper.edu

Sarah Renahan
Assistant Director of Annual Giving
sarah.renahan@cooper.edu

Elizabeth Rivera
Senior Director of Major Gifts
elizabeth.rivera@cooper.edu

Silvia Tjioe
Assistant Director, Institutional Giving and Sponsored Projects
silvia.tjioe@cooper.edu

Morgan Wilson-Menting
Assistant Director, Individual Giving
morgan.wilsonmenting@cooper.edu

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.