Kenneth Cooper

Harvard University Institute of Politics

Kenneth J. Cooper, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has been a journalist for more than 30 years, specializing in government, politics and social policy, at the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Knight Ridder, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and St. Louis American. In 1984, Cooper, then 28, shared a Pulitzer for special local reporting for “The Race Factor,” a Boston Globe series that examined institutional racism in Boston. He is the youngest African American to win a Pulitzer for journalism, and possibly the youngest to win the prize in any category.