Once a runway model and spokesmodel, Carrie Carter Cooper serves today as another kind of model: model citizen.
Carter Cooper founded BESTAgency in 1997 and has since grown it to over 300 employees with offices in Honolulu and Miami. The agency produces events and entertainment concepts, and supplies models and entertainers for the projects.
Carter Cooper devotes much of her time to philanthropic pursuits. She is a founding member of Nevada Women’s Philanthropy and a founding board member for the Discovery Children’s Museum. Her most recent endeavor is the formation of the Las Vegas Fashion Council, a nonprofit organization with a vision to diversify the economy in Las Vegas through the fashion industry.
During the pandemic, Carter Cooper created an initiative called the Mask Task Force through the LVFC that engaged hundreds of volunteers to support the devastating shortage of PPE—resulting in the donation of more than 30,000 PPE pieces.