4th and Baker with Host Kiler Davenport: Interview with Alan Cooper

Alan J Cooper embarked on a writing career after being struck by an impaired driver and incurring a severe brain injury. He began by writing articles on spiritual issues for Canadian journals, including Toronto’s national newspaperThe Globe & Mail but established himself as a full-fledged author with the publication, to great acclaim, of BRAININJURY in 2006.

After his catastrophic accident, Alan also embarked on a life of philanthropy and social justice, serving on a number of Boards dedicated to helping those less fortunate, and being a career counselor to people who have lost their jobs. He devoted a full year to helping prisoners in Toronto’s notorious Don Jail. Alan speed-walked the 25th New YorkMarathon, on behalf of brain-injured people who were being unfairly treated, and presented to the world brain injury conference in Dallas in 1996.

Prior to his brain injury, Alan Cooper was a senior private and public sector executive, singer in the world famous Mendelssohn Choir and frequent interviewee on radio and television. But the issue of religion as a source of injustice and often abuse of spirituality had intrigued him even before his brain injury. Alan’s fiction novel, The SECOND about the difference between religion and spirituality, was published in 2013 ? Alan holds 5 degrees from the University of Toronto, including 2 Masters, the first examining how values affect human behavior, the second a Master of Education, focusing on the need for freedom throughout the learning process.