Demetria Cooper

Demetria Latrice Cooper was born in Mississippi. She primarily grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but also lived in Oklahoma, Chicago, Illinois, Louisiana, Wilmington, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Demetria graduated from Fort Hamilton High School in Broklyn in 1996 and is the second oldest sibling with an older half-brother and two younger sisters. Demetria is the proud mother of two daughters, ages twenty-four and twenty-one, and a seventeen-year-old son.

Demetria's professional background includes service to the nation with twenty years of honorable military service as a medic/ EMT-B and a senior army leader. She served at nine duty stations, including Hawaii, New York, Fort Myer, Virginia (The Old Guard), Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Fort Riley, Kansas, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Fort Eustis, Virginia, and Louisiana. She returned to Fort Jackson as her last duty station before she retired from the military in 2018. During her military service, she also completed two overseas military deployments. Her first was a fifteen-month deployment to Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq (2008-2009), as a senior medic within a military police company, and the second was a ten-month deployment to Camp Buehring, Kuwait (2015-2016), as the satellite site manager for clinical military operations. After retiring from the army, Demetria has served as a nonprofit regional program manager in both South Carolina and Hawaii and has been deployed overseas as a civilian to Kuwait and Iraq. She has also worked for the federal government as a civilian employee and a subcontractor. Demetria currently works for the government in the role of Training Specialist (Facilitator) for the United States Army Master Resilience School.

Demetria is a lifelong learner with educational accomplishments that include a master's degree in public administration and a graduate certificate in health services management. She also holds various professional certifications as a Certified Associate Project Management (CAPM), Certified Career Coach, and Certified Life Coach with specialties in Confidence Coaching, Forgiveness Coaching, Spiritual Coaching, and Therapeutic Art Coaching. Demetria enjoys traveling, reading, writing, listening to music, and spending time with family (and a small core of key friends/extended family). She continues to work toward not being her own obstacle as she aspires to consistently live her best life through proper life-work balance.