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Kartraice D. Hooper, CMP
Director, Manager
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Areas of Expertise:
- Sophisticated timeline and logistics management
- Gaining productivity and economic results from client/vendor relationships
- Technology applications that add event impact
- Injecting creativity into event conceptualization
Senior Events Manager Kartraice Hooper joined Coulter in 2010. In this capacity, she provides event-management services for all Coulter Nonprofit Management clients, coordinating advance and onsite logistics for conferences, trade shows, workshops, award ceremonies, education programs and other in-person gatherings. She also serves as a key member of the Coulter Events business unit, which conceptualizes, designs and produces live events for public and private organizations.
Hooper began her career in July 1999 as a conference coordinator at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®. Over the years, her responsibilities included managing attendee correspondences and logistical arrangements for International CES® and CEA stand-alone events and executive programs. From 2003 to 2006, Hooper managed the VIP Buyer Program for the International CES®. Through streamlining and new marketing tactics, she increased VIP buyer participation by 145% since its inception in 1997. In August 2006, Hooper successfully passed the CMP exam and became a Certified Meeting Professional.
In 2008, Hooper was promoted to senior manager of conferences and events at CEA. She was responsible for the overall managing of the CEO Summit, the International CES® New York Press Event and the Industry Forum, CEA’s annual membership meeting. She was also primarily responsible for CEA event site selections and contract negotiations.
Hooper earned a bachelor’s degree in human communications from Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in legal communications and minored in history.
Hooper currently resides in Arlington, Virginia.
Now, here’s the backstory on Kartraice…
- Hometown: Detroit, MI with a three year detour in Murfreesboro, TN.
- Parents: My dad is a life long autoworker and my mom, who’s a natural caregiver, is a nurse.
- Favorite TV Show as a kid: I had a Saturday night tradition – The Love Boat and Fantasy Island (“The plane! The plane!”)
- Spent my days as a youth: I have a twin brother and an older brother, so being the only girl I was on my own a lot. You could classify me as a bookworm – Sweet Valley High series was my favorite.
- Thing I hate to admit, even to myself: I don’t have the Martha Stewart cooking gene.
- Hobbies: Traveling, jewelry making, music and reading.
- First "paycheck" job: I was working for The Colonel - KFC
- First car: A beige Cutlass Sierra. I don’t remember the year, just that it was old. My brothers and I nicknamed it the “Moneymaker” because it got us to and from our jobs.
- Personal quote: Forgiveness liberates the soul – Nelson Mandela
- Perfect happiness is: Healthy family and friends.
“Human beings can only grow because each of their 100 trillion cells holds the capacity to execute the entire life cycle. Likewise, an organization can only grow when every individual carries its vision, and proactively puts into place the means to implement that vision.”
– Chris Meyer, Director,
the Cap Gemini Center for Business Innovation
