People

Alumni Affairs & Development

Keith Butler

Senior Director, Foundation Relationships & Sponsored Projects
212.353.4138 | keith.butler@cooper.edu

Haleigh Collins

Specialist, Alumni Affairs & Development
212.353.4169 | Haleigh.Collins@cooper.edu

Madeline Conroy

Coordinator, Alumni Affairs & Individual Giving
212.353.4128 | madeline.conroy@cooper.edu

Michaela Dwyer

Coordinator, Foundation Relations & Sponsored Projects
212.353.4173 | michaela.dwyer@cooper.edu

Helen M. Freeman

Assistant Director, Alumni Affairs and Volunteer Engagement
212.353.4139 | helen.freeman@cooper.edu

Brian Hagan

Assistant Director, Foundation Relations & Sponsored Projects
212.353.4174 | brian.hagan@cooper.edu

Rebecca Kaplan

Manager, Development Operations & Reporting
212.353.4166 | rebecca.kaplan@cooper.edu

Elizabeth Rivera

Senior Director, Alumni Affairs and Individual Giving
212.353.4171 | elizabeth.rivera@cooper.edu

Nate Stuhl

Development Operations & Research
nate.stuhl@cooper.edu

Isaac W. K. Thweatt

Vice President of Development and Alumni Affairs
isaac.thweatt@cooper.edu

Morgan Wilson-Menting

Director, Principal Gifts Administration
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.