Antoinette Cooper

ANTOINETTE COOPER is a poet and collective trauma facilitator born in Jamaica and raised in NYC. Her work explores embodied narratives, medical humanities, and ancestral healing. Her writing has been featured in the Poetry Foundation, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and as a TEDx speaker. She leads trauma-informed workshops nationally, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Cooper serves on the Advisory Board for City University School of Medicine's Narrative Medicine Track of Distinction and is the founder of Black Exhale, a nonprofit organization creating spaces for healing intergenerational trauma in Black communities. She holds an MFA from Columbia University.