Nakia Cooper - President

Nakia Cooper wears many hats. She is an anchor and news & digital coordinator for KTSU 90.9 fm radio and Vibe Houston, media coordinator for the United States Department of Commerce- Census Bureau, the owner of NewsWithAttitude.com and Bayou Beat News (digital magazines) and an adjunct journalism professor at Texas Southern University.

This multi-award winning journalist, digital and social media expert proudly served as the first African American person to manage a digital media department at a Houston television news station (CW39 Houston). Prior to that, Cooper was in leadership as senior web producer at both KHOU 11 News (CBS) and KPRC 2 (NBC). Over the last decade, Cooper has helped solidify team wins for her web departments, boasting an Emmy, two Edward R. Murrow, three Associated Press and two Lone Star Press Awards for outstanding digital coverage. 

Cooper loves to give back and co-founded Sister 2 Sistah, a mentoring organization for college women of color fighting to overcome obstacles. Her “each one teach one” hands-on approach has helped secure more than a dozen mentees in intern and job placements across the country. Cooper's career and charitable accomplishments have been featured in Black Enterprise, USA Today, Black Doctor, the Houston Chronicle and Equal Opportunity Magazine, to name a few. She has also received a Congressional proclamation from the Hon. Sheila Jackson Lee and a Letter of Recognition from Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.  Cooper has a BA Journalism and MA Communications and Digital Media Studies, both received at her alma mater TSU. While in college, Cooper was the president of the TSU Association of Black Journalists (TSUABJ), contributing reporter for the TSU Herald and executive producer of the KTSU 90.9 FM student newscast. Cooper has spoken on more than two dozen national and local panels on the topics of digital and social media, and the breaking news industry.  

Cooper describes herself as a sassy Southern Belle who is not afraid to "fight like a man" while remaining true to womanhood. She is proud to have broken through a few glass ceilings, but her biggest and best productions to date are her two children.