Laurie Ball Cooper

Laurie Ball Cooper is the Vice President for U.S. Legal Programs at IRAP. In this role, Laurie leads IRAP’s litigation, U.S. legal services, and global pro bono departments.

Prior to her current role, Laurie was the U.S. Legal Services director at IRAP. Before joining IRAP in 2022, Laurie was the legal director at Ayuda, a non-profit in the D.C. metro area providing immigration, family law, and consumer legal services to immigrant populations in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.

Laurie holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.P.A. from the School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton, and a B.A. from Duke University, where she studied public policy. Laurie is fluent in English, Spanish, and Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian and has a working knowledge of German. Laurie serves as a volunteer board member of the Washington Council of Lawyers, a voluntary public interest bar association in Washington, D.C.

Laurie is licensed to practice law in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia. She is an inactive member of the California bar.