Cloee Cooper is a journalist and researcher with over a decade of experience researching far right movements and their inroads into law enforcement and local government. She was granted the 2021 Soros Justice Media fellowship to develop a podcast on far right sheriffs and holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, specializing in social justice and investigative reporting. Before the mainstream knew of White nationalism, she tracked, monitored, and organized against anti-immigrant organizations with ties to White nationalism with the Center for New Community from 2009-2012.