Freshman year of high school was rough for Rich Cooper. It was 1980 and his family was living in Olympia, Wash.
“I had bad grades. I wasn’t interested in anything. But we moved to Haines and all of a sudden, my life did a 180. It just changed everything… Had I not had that support at that time, God knows where I would be.”
Today Cooper heads a video production company he founded in 2009,…
