35mm by aidan jung, backedge prouctions

Ariel Rose Cooper is a writer and photographer whose work examines care, survival, and the architectures of power. She has spent her career redesigning health and social systems to center dignity and equity, lecturing at UC Berkeley and leading a startup that provides mutual aid to unhoused Medicaid members. Raised among seven siblings in Northern California and post-war Kosovo, she writes to make sense of the worlds we inherit and the ones we build.