Dr. Tom Cooper was a guest scholar at Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, Cambridge, Princeton, the East-West Center, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Hawaii during his last two sabbaticals, and was professor at Emerson College for thirty-eight years. The Association for Responsible Communication which he founded was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Cooper taught at Harvard, where he graduated magna cum laude, and was an 'ethics expert' at a United Nations project in Vienna and Athens. A former assistant to Marshall McLuhan, he was a consultant to the Elders Project which involved Nelson Mandela, Kofi Anan and Jimmy Carter. Cooper is a playwright with a Ph.D. in theater and media, a union musician who trained at the Royal Conservatory, a poet, black belt, blogger, and author or co-author of nine books and over two hundred academic and professional articles and reviews.

Dr. Cooper's recent book, DOING THE RIGHT THING, is about twelve of the most difficult and influential ethical decisions ever made and his current book, WISDOM WEAVERS, is about our relationship with media and the intellectual relationship between Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. His current musical, HIGHER! HIGHER!, is in development at theaters in Cambridge, MA, and in Honolulu where it premieres in 2025.