Remarkable Women nominee: Kim Cooper
2024 Remarkable Women Winner
Cooper is an Indiana State University graduate. She says she began her career 35 years ago at Union Hospital in Terre Haute. She loved working there, but then had a child and wanted better hours that did not require working nights and weekends. So, she applied for an instructor's position at Ivy Tech.
'My short range plan was to come here and I was going to stay 3 to 4 years. My daughter would go to preschool or to school and I would go back to acute care,' said Kim Cooper.
2023 Remarkable Women winner
Cooper said she's now been at Ivy Tech 25 years. Over those years, Cooper has helped the Ivy Tech nursing program on the two campuses grow. Besides overseeing the nursing programs, she's also been appointed by three Indiana governors to serve on the Indiana Nursing Board.
She says it's an honor to be nominated as a Remarkable Woman.
'It's something I would have never expected. I think I'm a lucky person. I think I'm living a blessed life,' added Cooper.
The winner of WTWO's Remarkable Women's contest goes on to the station's parent company, Nexstar Broadcasting's, national contest. It includes a free trip to Los Angeles and a $1,000 donation to a charity of the winner's choice.
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