Cooper Harris

Cooper Harris is an American actress and entrepreneur. She started on television, taking a role on As the World Turns after moving to New York City, then played a lead in an off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater. When that closed, she went to Los Angeles and appeared in the Paramount film Dough Boys, her entry into Hollywood. She also acted on Young and the Restless. During that time, her interest in entrepreneurship grew and she began entering hackathons. She won the AT&T Hackathon in Los Angeles. Later she built Collective, an innovation and technology summit held during the Sundance film festival, and co-founded Hackdance, a social impact hackathon. She has judged and produced hackathons for South by Southwest, PBS, and BritWeek. Harris is the founder and CEO of Klickly, a payments platform. She has spoken at the Consumer Electronics Show and Cannes Lions, where she was named a 2017 Top Thought Leader.